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2012 News March 2009

2009-03-21T13:18:47Z

THE WEBPAGE OF THIS NEWSLETTER: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newz54.htm

2012 News March 2009 - Aug 2009

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

New on What's New : www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new10.htm

New Terence McKenna Film: The Alchemical Dream

Abductee Claims Earth Will be Transformed in 2012

Another Remote Viewer Blocked at 2012

Aida's Strange Reality

Peter Gersten Will Leap off Bell Rock in 2012

2012 Idiots Guide - DiaGnosis Review

New on Maya Links and Date Calculators: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/mlink.htm

Maya Calendar Widget - download a Maya calendar for your Apple Mac desktop

New on 2012 Links: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

Timewave 2012 : Amazing Timewave calculator, showing Kelley, watkins, Sheliak, Huang Ti and Franklin waves. Also now has a new mayan date calculator - N.B. re-enter the date when it downloads, or it will show the wrong date . The site also has a great Amazon 2012 search engine - works better than the one at Amazon!
2012ology - the prophecies. the predictions. the theories - the sister site of Age of Ascension - networking sites, with blogs, forums and chatrooms
The VERY LATEST 2012 books: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books15.html

99 books in English

2012: A Guide to Spiritual Awareness - Change Has Begun by: Jay Hill, Michelle Kraus October 03, 2008
2012---A New Beginning? by: Robert Butler January 08, 2009
2012 and the Arrival of Planet X by: Commander X, Poke Runyan, Diane Tessman, Tim R. Swartz June 16, 2008
2012 and the Galactic Center: The Return of the Great Mother by: Christine R. Page August 24, 2008 DIRE GNOSIS REVIEW
2012 and the End of Institutional Evil: The Last Days of Satan, Antichrist & the Mahdi by: Herbert R. Stollorz September 17, 2008
2012 Atlantis Sinks Again - December 21, 2012 AD by Stefan Tony Perry
2012 Awakening: Choosing Spiritual Enlightenment Over Armageddon by: Sri Ram Kaa, Kira Raa October 16, 2008
2012: Biography of a Time Traveler: The Journey of Jose Arguelles by: Stephanie South March 20, 2009
2012 in Your Pocket by Geoff Stray March 28 2009 (4th Dimension Press US edition)
2012 Mayan Calendar & The Great Pyramid Predicts Paradise Begins in Australia by: Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall July 23, 2008
2012 Mayan Calendar & The Great Pyramid Predicts the Earth Will Enter Paradise After It Crosses The Milky Way Equator in 2013 by: Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall
July 23, 2008
2012 Mayan Calendar Found in the Great Pyramid and Christ Return by: Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall July 20, 2008
2012 Mayan Calendar Prophecy & Related Myth by: J.V. Errichetti June 29, 2008
2012, The Bible, and the End of the World by: Mark Hitchcock October 01, 2009
2012 The Dire Events Predicted by Astrologers, Scientists, Prophets & Mythologists by: Charles M Klotsche April 29, 2008
2012 The End Is here by: Albert Allen December 08, 2008
2012--The Journey Continues BOOK III by: Robert Butler January 08, 2009 FICTION
2012: The Lord of the South by: Elvis Kilroy December 23, 2008
2012--The New Horizon BOOK IV by: Robert Butler January 08, 2009 FICTION
2012 The Symphony by: Angela Clarke December 01, 2008 FICTION
2012: Under the Witz Mountain by: Michael Weddle February 03, 2009 FICTION
2012:Waking of the Prophets by: Rose Elizabeth Hahn April 19, 2008
2012 Wisdom of The Elohim: The Complete Virtual Serenity 12-Part Teaching Series Transcript from: Your Own World Books January 01, 2009
2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012 by: Marie D. Jones July 01, 2008
Apocalypse 2012 (Aztec) by: Gary Jennings, Robert Gleason, Junius Podrug June 09, 2009 FICTION
Asteroid Answers to Ancient Calendar Mysteries: 2012, Aztec Pyramids, Antikythera & Other Ancient Calendar Clocks by: Herbert R. Stollorz July 03, 2008
A ~ TIME: All There Is Matters Equally: 2012, Maya Tzolkin CountNew Native Art13 Moon Zodiac Calendar by: Kareline van der Burg September 01, 2008
A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change by: John L. Petersen May 14, 2008
Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions by: Geoff Stray June 15, 2009 (INNER TRADITIONS US edition)
Beyond Kyoto: Instrumental Reason and Its Critique in the Context of the Post-2012 Climate Architecture by: Veronika Trulikova January 29, 2009
Beyond Techniques: The 2012 Shift: Evolving From Lightworker to Light by: Lisa Marie Gutowski September 08, 2008
Book of Discipline/ Book of Resolutions 2009-2012 2009-01
Christ and the Mayan Calendar: 2012 and the Coming of the Antichrist by: Robert Powell, Kevin Dann 2009-03
Christian Survival Guide to 2012 and Beyond by: Derek Johnson August 26, 2008
Coalescence, The Future of Humanity by: Jeff Michaels April 27, 2007
Consciousness is King - The Mystery of the Divine Feminine by Alfred Dominic Borda, March 2009
Cosmic Eve 2012 Rebirthing Mankind: Our Evolution Has Begun! by: Susan Isabelle January 26, 2009
Dawnkeepers (Final Prophecy, Book 2) by: Jessica Andersen January 06, 2009 FICTION
December 22, 2012 by: Jeremy Walker November 12, 2008
Earth Changes and 2012: Messages From the Founders by: Sal Rachele 2008
Earthquake Resurrection: Supernatural Catalyst for the Coming Global Catastrophe by: David W. Lowe September 05, 2005
Everything 2012 by Mark Heley...Coming soon THIS WILL BE GOOD - I HAVE SEEN SOME OF THE MANUSCRIPT!
Evolve: The mystery of love revealed. A Spiritual Guide to Exploring Our Ultimate Truth by: Dale E. Sarna September 11, 2008
Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age by: Gregg Braden March 17, 2009
Fulfilling the Sacred Ancestral Prophecy of the Triple Nine:: Unveiling the Prophetic 2012 Meltdown of the Lost and Astray Pale State of Mind by: High Priest Kwatamani
January 21, 2009
Heaven's Wave: A Novel of the Doomsday Prophecy of 2012 by: DeEarlon July 01, 2008 FICTION
lluminati - 2012: The Book the World does not Want you to Read by: Nishan Kumaraperu FICTION December 25, 2008
Living Through the Closing of the Life Cycle (A Survival Guide for the Road to 2012) from: Foundation for the Law of Time 1998
Mayan Cholq'ij: Sacred Teachings and Calendar 2009 / Ensenanza Sagrada y Calendario 2009 by: Gg January 14, 2009
Maya Prophecy: Discover What 2012 Holds for You by: Dr. Ronald Bonewitz May 01, 2009
Mother's Revenge by: Jeffrey L. Tuller May 05, 2008 FICTION
Nightkeepers (Final Prophecy, Book 1) by: Jessica Andersen June 03, 2008 FICTION
Planet X and The Kolbrin Bible Connection: Why The Kolbrin Bible is the Rosetta Stone of Planet X by: Greg Jenner May 09, 2008
Red Earth by: Jefferson R. Weekley April 20, 2008 FICTION
Seeing in the Dark: Claim Your Own Shamanic Power Now and in the Coming Age by: Colleen Deatsman, Paul Bowersox May 01, 2009
Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012 by Drunvalo Melchizedek Jan 1, 2008
Spare a Thought for 2012 from: Go! Publishing December 01, 2009
Spiritual Wisdom for a Planet in Peril - Preparing for 2012 and Beyond by: Dr. Laura Dunham October 01, 2008
Stalking the Tricksters: Shapeshifters, Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts and 2012 by: Christopher O'Brien March 15, 2009
Stargate 2012: Recovering the Power for Earth's Imminent Ascension by: Paco Alarcon-Kahan July 21, 2008
Starpeople: The Sirian Redemption (Starpeople) by: Linda Tuck-Jenkins June 30, 2001 FICTION
Sumerity by: Saundra McDavid January 17, 2009 FICTION
Survive and Prosper in the Great Depression of 2009-2012: A Step-By-Step Guide to Amassing a Fortune Trading Foreign Currencies by: J.J. Glenellis December 10, 2008
Temple At The Center Of Time: Newton's Bible Codex Finally Deciphered and the Year 2012 by: David Flynn September 08, 2008
The 13th Baktun by: Mike Kearby February 04, 2008 FICTION
The 2012 Chronicles: To The One World by: Linn Vemilion Smith August 11, 2008
The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Three: 2012: Unlocking the Secret from: AuthorHouse July 10, 2008
The Astrology of 2012 and Beyond, by: Cal Garrison July 01, 2009
The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 by: Carlos Barrios June 30, 2009
The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 (Complete Idiot's Guide to) by: Synthia Andrews, Colin Andrews October 07, 2008
The Cosmic Pool Hall: Racked-Up for Ascension 2012 (The Art of C R Strahan Note Cards, Boxed Set of 8 Cards/Envelopes--Blank Inside) by: C R Strahan 2008
The Cracking Tower: Strategies for Transcending 2012 by: Jim Dekorne November 03, 2009
The Demise of the Beast 666 and the World Order Foretold in the Great Pyramid & Mayan Calendar 2012 by: Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall July 22, 2008
THE DIVINITY WITHIN YOU: PARTICIPATING IN YOUR OWN EVOLUTION NOW AND BEYOND 2012 by: EMANUEL SOLARIS ORIISIS January 05, 2009
The Endlight Event by: John P. Cater March 26, 2008 FICTION
The Eschaton by: William Hopper January 06, 2009 FICTION
The Ghosts of 2012 by Graham Hurley July 28, 2009 FICTION .
The Great Shift: Co-Creating a New World for 2012 and Beyond by: Lee Carroll, Tom Kenyon, Patricia Cori February 15, 2009
The Mayan Prophecies for 2012 by: Gerald Benedict September 02, 2008
The Mayan Prophecy 2012: The Mayan Calendar and the End of Time by: David Douglas January 05, 2009
The Mayans and Doomsday December 21, 2012 by: Jimmy Dale December 27, 2008
The Mushroom Farms by: J. Newcombe Hodges March 08, 2008 FICTION
The Neptune Cycle 2012 by: Lois Stahl November 25, 2008 FICTION
The Return of Jesus Christ 2012 by: Albert Allen November 28, 2008
The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 2 The Challenge: v. 2 by: Andrew Smith May 15, 2008
The Sedona City of Light: Revelation of the Prophecies, Purpose and Plans for a City of Light, Love and Healing by: Genii Townsend August 08, 2008
The Shaman: Science, Nature, Prophecy by: Mark D. Longo August 26, 2008 FICTION
The Spiritual Secrets of the Equinoxes: Light Work towards 2012 by: Marianne Scheel May 09, 2008
The Truth: What You Must Know Before December 21, 2012 by: Stephen Martin October 15, 2008
The Ultimate 2012ology Secret Guide by Manjit Sareen
Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age by: Daniel Pinchbeck, Ken JordanJohn Major Jenkins and various authors (Jenkins is the only one who says anything about 2012) December 26, 2008
Trial in Jade: The Mayan return by Margaret Evans (part 2 of the Sixth World triliogy) FICTION
What's Up With 2012? by: Susan K. Sanderford November 07, 2008
When a Good Angel Falls [Winter Solstice 2012] by: Savanna Kougar December 12, 2008 FICTION
Wizardia II: The Legacy of Prophecy and Predictions Integrated with Nostradamus 1700 A.D.-2012 A.D.-2700 A.D. by: Billy Staggs June 14, 2008

New on 2012 Downloads: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/rave.htm

Red Ice Creations Interview Sept 2008
Glastonbury radio Interview about "The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars"

Other 2012 Links & Languages: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm
El espiritu de la piedra & El retorno a la sabiduria Maya & Hacia el 2012/ The spirit of the stone & Return to the wisdom of the Maya & Towards 2012 (Spanish Edition)
by: Gabriela Orozco November 30, 2008

2012. Khroniki smutnogo vremeni by: E. Zubarev 2008

Voiny kreativa. Glavnaia kniga 2008-2012 (in Russian) by: Unknown author 2008

Kod maiia: 2012 by: A. Skott 2008

Oshibka " 2012 ". Igra nipochem by: M. Semenova 2008

Der HundertjÃ¤hrige Kalender 2008-2012 by: Wolf-Dietmar Unterweger September 30, 2007

2012 Decode - La Theorie De La Dissolution (French Edition) by: Peter Lovat

2012 La puerta (Spanish Edition) by: Eduardo Versi September 01, 2008

El Proyecto Gaia 2012 by Hwee-Yong Jang

2012 El despertar de la humanidad (Spanish Edition) by: Luis Oscoy May 01, 2008

Preparados Para El 2012? by: Autores Varios September 02, 2008

Maya 2012 by: Peter Ruppel January 01, 2008

2012. Khroniki smutnogo vremeni by: E. Zubarev 2008

Oshibka " 2012 ". Igra nipochem by: M. Semenova 2008

Voiny kreativa. Glavnaia kniga 2008-2012 (in Russian) by: Unknown author 2008

New on 2012 Events: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

Forthcoming 2012 talks by Geoff Stray:
April 20 2009 Wyvern Dowsing Society, Wooton Basset, Near Swindon, Wiltshire UK
Sunrise festival Somerset, UK, 28 May - 1 Jun
London College of Spirituality June 26th
July 16-19 2009: Glade Festival, nr. Winchester, Hampshire, UK
July 23-26 2009 Virginia Beach VA USA
Big Green Gathering, Somerset, UK 29 July - 2 Aug
August 8 2009 , Marlborough College, Wiltshire, UK
Beyond Knowledge Conference Liverpool, UK, Sept. 12-13
Out -of-the Ordinary Festival, Sussex, UK Sep 18 - 20

New on 2012 Video: www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/vid.htm

On the Edge: Michael Tsarion and Geoff Stray interviewed by Hugo Chalmers on his 2-hour special (parts 1 & 2)
Interview with Straydog in the basement of Watkins Bookshop, Covent Garden, London - Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 (filmed by Bullincat from an Edge Media TV Sky Channel 200 programme).
2012 - The Final Cut - Swany's original edit of the 6-minute extract of a possible 2012 film project. Features the Auriga Mysteries group and Straydog in the Doghouse (pre-hair removal)
Cicero TV: Straydog's 5-minute 2012 video summary and 20-minute rant
2012 - An Awakening DVD released
2012 - Science or Superstition DVD release

Other News:

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2012 NEWS May 2008

2008-05-09T21:22:59Z

THE WEBPAGE OF THIS NEWSLETTER:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newz53.htm

2012 News Apr 2008 - Oct 2008

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

New on What's New :
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new10.htm

Dire Gnosis Review on Jean Erasmus's new Book, The
Sleeper must Awaken
Lenny Shaw has written a review of the Los Angeles
2012 Conference, exclusively for Diagnosis2012
Tuning the Diamonds - Electromagnetism and Spiritual
Evolution - Dire Gnosis book review
Contemporary Mayan Geomagnetic Prediction
Tortuguero Monument 6 - The Preceding Text
Andrew Smith Predicts "A Big Sloshing of Water"
Helen Sewell's Article for Dire Gnosis on the
Astrology of 2012

New on 2012 Links:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

maya12-21-2012.com - site includes a great 2012 video
page!
2012 Rising - Bruce Fenton's site, including his own
essays.
Truth For Wellness, with its 2012 blog
2012: Final Fantasy - Ernie Fitzpatrick's site
promoting his three 2012 books
2012 Predictions : a 2012 links directory

New on 2012 books:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newbooks.htm

NEW GEOFF STRAY BOOK OUT: 2012 IN YOUR POCKET - a
64-page pocket-sized condensed book with the latest
updates! http://www.lulu.com/content/2279738

BEYOND 2012 NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095506080X/2012diregnosi-20

THIRTY-SEVEN other NEW BOOKS ON 2012! 17 new 2012
Non-Fiction books, 1 fact/fiction; 11 fiction; 8 more
2012 books due out between June and October 2008!!

Darren Daulton's book is out!:
If They Only Knew by Darren Daulton

Hugh Newman's book on Psychic Children is finally out:
The Psychic Children - Dolphins, DNA and the Planetary
Grid by Hugh Newman

There is also a sudden influx of "Beyond 2012" books:

The Divine Plan Beyond 2012 by Caroline Cory
Visions of the Fourth Dimension: Earth Beyond 2012 by
Dawon Washington & Ruth Magan
Serpent of Light - Beyond 2012 by Druvalo Melchizedek
Beyond 2012: A Shaman's Call to Personal Change and
the Transformation of Global Consciousness by James
Enready

The Sleeper Must Awaken by Jean Erasmus SEE DIRE
GNOSIS REVIEW
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/awake.html
TunIng the Diamonds - Electromagnetism and evolution
by Susan Joy Rennison SEE DIRE GNOSIS REVIEW
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/diam.html
2012: The Transformation from the Love of Power to the
Power of Love by Robert Roskind
2012 Quick and Dirty by Wayne Redden
Introducing Michael Morris: Countdown to 2012 BY John
Reizer
The Ultimate Enlightenment For 2012: All We Need Is
Ourselves by Michele Doucette
Earth Without Polarity -- Foreshadowing 2012 by Llan
Starkweather
Doomsday December 21, 2012 by Karen Peebles
The Odd Man Out - The Taren Prophecy - by Noel J Rea
Journey to the Fifth World: Coming Full Circle in
Healing and Transformation by Michele Ama Wehali
2012: The Fourth Dimension: Book One of the Lyra
Legacy Chronicles by Manda NON-FICTION/FICTION
Pandemonium in 2012 by Lee Cross NON-FICTION?

Flying Between Heaven and Earth by Gina E. Jones
FICTION
Stellar Wind: 2012 (Paperback) by Catherine Barber
FICTION
The Maya End Times: A Spiritual Adventure - Maya
Prophecies for 2012 by Patricia Mercier FICTION
The Testari Scrolls by L. C. Laird FICTION
Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return by Margaret Evans
FICTION
2012- A Conspiracy Tale by Bryan Collier FICTION
2012: The Fourth Dimension: Book One of the Lyra
Legacy Chronicles by Manda FICTION
The Aquarians: An Ancient Mayan Prophecy - A Modern
Phenomenon FICTION
The Thin White Line: A History of the 2012 Avian Flu
Pandemic in Canada by Craig Dilouie FICTION
Earth 2012: The Ultimate Quest by Aurora Juliana Ariel
FICTION
Keys of Destiny by Adin Kachisi FICTION

COMING SOON:

A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change
by John Petersen out in June 2008
2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning
the World After the Events of 2012 by Marie D. Jones
(Jul 2008)
The Maya Prophecies for 2012 by Gerald Benedict (Sep
2008)
2012 Awakening: Choosing Spiritual Enlightenment Over
Armageddon by Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa September 2008)
The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the
Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 by Carlos
Barrios (September 2008)
2012 Rising by Bruce Fenton - Autumn 2008
The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 by Synthia Andrews
and Colin Andrews (Oct 2008). The book will probably
be exactly what it says on the cover - to see Mr
Andrews "spicing things up a bit", or simply getting
his "facts" mixed up, see the DVD of his talk plus q&a
at Laughlin UFO Conference 2006, where he made a
statement about Straydog, not knowing I was in the
audience.
2012 and the Galactic Center: The Return of the Great
Mother by Christine Page (October 2008) N.B. CHRISTINE
PAGE HAS CHANGED THE DATES OF GALACTIC ALIGNMENT TO
MAKE IT START AT HARMONIC CONVERGENCE!!

New on Other 2012 Links & Languages:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

BEYOND 2012 NOW OUT IN A DUTCH EDITION!
¿Final del juego?

New on 2012 Events:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

MEGALITHOMANIA - Glastonbury, May 17th and 18th, plus
Megalithic tours, Fri and Mon
Forthcoming 2012 talks by Geoff Stray:

The Alternative View 25, 26, 27 April 2008, Totnes,
Devon,, more info: http://www.thealternativeview.co.uk

Maya Dreamtime 2012 Conference 3-5 May Assembly Rooms,
Glastonbury, Somerset UK
http://www.mayadreamtime2012.co.uk/
The Sunrise Celebration - 29 May - 1 June, near
Yeovil, Somerset, UK,
http://www.sunrisecelebration.com
World in Transition Conference Highland Perthshire,
Scotland Summer Solstice, 21st & 22nd June 2008
http://www.sacredconnections.co.uk
Silent Circle Cafe - The White Horse Inn, Compton
Basset, Wiltshire - July 2 2008, evening
http://www.silentcircle.co.uk/home.html
A.R.E. 2012 Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, USA, July
18-20 2008 with Carlos Barrios, Adrian Gilbert,
Whitley Streiber, Mitch Battros More Info:
http://www.edgarcayce.org
Out of The Ordinary Earth Mysteries Festival, Sussex,
UK, 12-14 September 2008
http://www.outoftheordinaryfestival.com/
Rome, Italy, 21 September 2008 with John Major Jenkins

New on 2012 Video:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/vid.htm

Forthcoming film: 2012: Time of Awakening: NEW TRAILER
NOW!
Sequel to 2012 the Odyssey: Timewave 2012: Odyssey II
NEW TRAILER NOW!
other 2012 videos

Other News:

New 2012 Film coming, starring Russell Crowe:
2012, The Prophecy of the Serpent
http://pakalahau.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/new-mayan-film-2012-the-prophecy-of-the-serpent/
Another 2012 film due: The Dark Rift:
http://www.antigravitymovie.com/story.htm

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AZORSKY - new electro project from PENTA

2008-05-07T10:26:56Z

Hello Everyone!
Nikita a.k.a. Penta has just opened a new MySpace page for his new electro project "Azorsky".
www.myspace.com/azorsky

Azorsky is an electro house project of Nikita Tselovalnikov also making psytrance music under the name Penta on his own label AuraQuake. A Russian in the previously pirate-infested Azores Islands of Portugal, Nikita wanted to create a sound that reflected the archipelago parties and to deliver it to your nearest club or living room. Electrifying rhythms and sound effects, emotional melodies and overall positive mood are everything Azorsky stands for in the name of good times. Watch out for Azorsky releases on digital download stores such as Beatport, DJDownload and iTunes soon!

All the best,
AuraQuake

To Book Azorsky and Penta Projects please contact Catia at booking@auraquake.com
www.azorsky.com - coming soon!

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Store in Azores

2008-02-01T16:54:20Z

Hello friends.
My little store in Atlantis has a small webpage :)
You can check it at www.artgaia.net .
Come for a visit if your nearby.
Love
C

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BooM Festival 2008 site online

2008-02-01T16:51:49Z

www.boomfestival.org/boom2008/index.php

Here it is once again on the beautiful shores of Barragem de Idanha.
Hope to see you all there :)

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Reboot Now Festival ( Portugal)

2008-02-01T16:48:21Z

Reboot Now - a festival to celebrate the emergence of new paradigms,
where you can become a catalyst for change by the unlearning of old patterns…

from the 02 – 09 August 2008

Happening for the first time on the beautiful shores of Idanha-a-Nova in Portugal, Reboot Now will celebrate ecologically-sustainable
and socially-just ways of organizing people-nature relationships.

By connecting world experts on topics such as permaculture, earth architecture, biomimicry and metaphysics, we can develop a sense of connectedness with other people and systems and will be able to reflect and take action to shape local and global communities.

Reboot Now festival will take us into the depth of matters, by inviting you to contribute to creating preferred futures. We will be joining into one event NGOs, lecturers, thinkers, indie media, scientists and a wide variety of activists from all over the world.

A week later (11-18 August) the Boom Festival will take place at the same site for the 7th time, hosting an avantgarde programme of arts, culture, sustainability, free expression and knowledge.

http://www.rebootnow.org/

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World Psychedelic Forum

2007-12-17T12:46:02Z

Introduction

Psychedelics have been widely used for thousands of years nearly everywhere on the planet. Psychoactive plants have been central to most ancient sacred rituals and primitive medical treatments. They have been worshipped in all cultures as "Plants of the Gods" and considered as mediators between human beings and the universe, linking the physical to the spiritual dimensions of existence.

In January 2006 the International Symposium "LSD – Problem Child and Wonder Drug" took place at the occasion of the 100th birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD. Several thousand visitors and more than 200 media people from 37 countries gathered in Basel to hear speeches from scientists and historians, to exchange ideas and disseminate information. It was the biggest conference of its kind worldwide. For the first time since the turbulent 1960s, a wide range of psychedelic issues and topics has been brought back to public discussion and re-evaluation.

The "World Psychedelic Forum" will expand upon this renewed interest, presenting a unique opportunity for experts, researchers, and interested persons from all around the globe, to exchange views and hear presentations of the latest research on the value of these remarkable psychedelic substances in medicine, psychology, science, religion, culture and the arts.

The term "psychedelic" is derived from the Greek "psyche" (soul) and "delos" (manifest), and means a state in which the soul manifests itself. It was coined in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, in a now-famous exchange with writer Aldous Huxley; both recognized the potential of these compounds for self-awareness, and their correspondence to psychoactive plants held sacred for millennia.

Albert Hofmann experienced the extraordinary mental effects of LSD in the context of his work as a chemist in 1943. He so was placing a cornerstone for new insights and knowledge about by the time unexplored consciousness expanding substances. The following decade saw the publication of thousands of research papers about the nature and the effects of LSD, mescaline and psilocybin. But when LSD got out of the laboratories and "out of control", to be used for self-exploration by 1960s youth, Western governments generally declared psychoactive substances a menace, claimed it had no psychological, educational or therapeutic value, and linked it to dangerous and addictive narcotics. With a compliant mainstream media that sensationalized and parroted the official drug policy, the "authorities" not only prohibited research on these sacred compounds but criminalized the users, a situation that has prevailed ever since, except for example in the Netherlands and in Switzerland, and although inroads have been made in recent years that will be one of the many themes of this conference.

The classic psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin from magic mushrooms, mescaline from peyote and ayahuasca – the Amazonian "Vine of the Soul" – are not drugs in the medical sense but belong, according to Albert Hofmann "concerning their chemical structure and their pharmacological effects, to the sacred substances, re-discovered through LSD, and used in ritual settings for thousands of years." They are characterized by the fact that they are neither toxic nor addictive, and have the power to bestow benefits of both practical and transcendental value.

The global youth movement, that peaked some forty years ago with the "Summer of Love", was fueled by psychedelics. A historical view shows, that the "consciousness-expanded" hippie counterculture exerted an enduring influence on society. Without the soul-opening and sensory stimulus of psychedelics, many of the social, cultural and ecological advances taken for granted today would be absent from our lives.

At the "World Psychedelic Forum," more than fifty experts from all over the world will bear witness to, and shine light upon the multi-dimensional psychedelic experience with its tremendous potential for expanding consciousness and for self-awareness. We will hear of the renewal of research that foretells a promising future when psychedelic plants and their synthetic derivatives will reclaim their destined position as incomparably valuable tools for individual and collective evolution and thus supporting the needed consciousness change for humanity.

Preface

Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change.

Therefore I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools which are guiding our perception toward other deeper areas of our human existence, so that we again become aware of our spiritual essence. Psychedelic experiences in a safe setting can help our consciousness open up to this sensation of connection and of being one with nature.

LSD and related substances are not drugs in the usual sense, but are part of the sacred substances, which have been used for thousand of years in ritual settings. The classic psychedelics like LSD, Psilocybin and Mescaline are characterized by the fact that they are neither toxic nor addictive. It is my great concern to separate psychedelics from the ongoing debates about drugs, and to highlight the tremendous potential inherent to these substances for self-awareness, as an adjunct in therapy, and for fundamental research into the human mind.

It is my wish that a modern Eleusis will emerge, in which seeking humans can learn to have transcendent experiences with sacred substances in a safe setting.

I am convinced that this conference furthers the idea that these soul-opening, mind-revealing substances will find their appropriate place in our society and our culture.

Dr. Albert Hofmann
Thursday, 19th April 2007

Welcome!

Together with Albert Hofmann, we very much look forward to seeing many of the participants of the 2006 LSD Symposium again at the World Psychedelic Forum 2008, and to welcoming many new visitors.

The organizers

Dieter A. Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller

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Portugal, Grail,Azores etc....

2007-11-21T19:12:31Z

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sumer_anunnaki/reptiles/reptiles29.htm

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2012 News Nov 2007

2007-11-09T18:25:34Z

THE WEBPAGE OF THIS NEWSLETTER: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newz52.htm

2012 News Jun 07- Mar 08

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

The New Book is out:

The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802716342/2012diregnosi-20

Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802716342/2012diregnosi-21

NEW DUTCH INTRODUCTION to the website: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/dutch.html

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new10.htm

*
The World Upside Down Review: Jo and Kris Van den Driessche get the Diagnosis treatment
*
UFO Landings 2011-2012: An ex-aerospace employee reveals what he saw on secret documents

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

*
An interview with Mr X.: See above
*
2012: Eye of the Shaman: An advertisement for a forthcoming book, plus 2012 info.
* Earth 2012: a 2012 info site that has been formed largely from info taken from Diagnosis2012 (with permission), arranged as a spoof 2012 Olympics site

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newbooks.htm

* The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray
* The Mystery of 2012 - Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities by various authors, including Geoff Stray, John Major Jenkins, Jay Weidner, Sharon Rose, Jean Houston, Daniel Pinchbeck, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Gregg Braden, Robert Sitler, Ervin Laszlo, Peter Russell, Jose Arguelles.
* Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide by Jacco van Der Worp
* Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers by Horn Thomas
* Conversations with the Children of Now: Crystal, Indigo, Star, and Transitional Children Speak Out about the World and the Coming 2012 Shift by Meg Blackburn Losey
* Infinity's Flower: A Tale of 2012 & the Great Shift of the Ages by Jack Allis
* 2012 by Mark Borax
* 2012, The Mayan Calendar, Sacred Places and UFOs by Rob Simone (NB name of book on cover omits "2012" - more jumping on the bandwagon?
* 2012 and the Ring of Light: When Mankind Finally Grows up by Nancy E. Shaffron
* Jet Stream - part one of WWIII, The Breakup Of America: A 21st Century Thriller: A story of American heroes facing America's darkest hour: The year is 2012...by R. Lee Muehlberg - Fiction
* The False Prophets: Will the Year 2012 bring Heaven or Hell? by B J Boltauzer - Fiction
* Apocalypse Prophesied by Herbert R Stollorz
* 12/21/2012: A Prephecy by John J Ventre
* The Ezekiel Code by Gary Val tenuta
* The Return of Planet X: Wormwood by Jaysen Q Rand
* Mayan Mars by Marc Meyers

New on Other 2012 Links & Languages: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

Apocalipsis 2012 by David Walker

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New on 2012 Downloads:

http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/rave.htm

*

Unlocking the Secrets of 2012: Galactic Wisdom from the Ancient Skywatchers by John Major Jenkins (Audio CD - 31 Oct 2007)

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

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Forthcoming 2012 talks by Geoff Stray:
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Helsinki, Finland, Feb 9-10 2008
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Virginia Beach, USA, July 18-20 2008

New on 2012 Video: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/vid.htm

* Geoff Stray recorded at the Signs of Destiny Conference, Tempe, Arizona, 2004
* Forthcoming film: 2012: Time of Awakening
* David Wilcock interview
* Sequel to 2012 the Odyssey coming soon...
* 2012: Visions of the Future - documentary in planning stage

Other News:

Update to Chaos Point Review : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/chaos.html

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Depressed? Go Play in the Dirt

2007-04-14T01:14:08Z

Now i now why i fell so happy outdoors ;).....

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Fri Apr 13, 9:25 AM ET

Exposure to friendly soil bacteria could improve mood by boosting the immune system just as effectively as antidepressant drugs, a new study suggests.
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Researchers exposed mice to a harmless soil microbe called Mycobacterium vaccae and had the rodents perform a behavioral task commonly used to test the efficacy of antidepressant drugs.

The mice were placed in a large beaker of water for five minutes and watched to see how long they continued swimming and searching for an exit before giving up. The researchers found that the bacteria-exposed mice continued paddling around much longer than the control mice.

"At the risk of anthropomorphizing, you could say the [bacteria-exposed] mice had a more active coping style," said study leader Chris Lowry of the University of Bristol in England.

Mice given antidepressant drugs also appear more determined to escape, Lowry added. The finding is detailed online by the journal Neuroscience.

Human test

Results from the new study are similar to those from a medical trial a few years ago in which human cancer patients treated with the bacteria reported significant increases in their quality of life.

"M. vaccae is no longer being pursued as a treatment for cancer, because it didn't prolong life, but patients did report increases in things like vitality and cognitive function and decreases in pain," Lowry told LiveScience. Scientists still don't know how M. vaccae improves mood. "We don't know the mechanism. That�s something that we would desperately like to know," Lowry said.

The researchers suspect, however, that the microbes are affecting the brain indirectly by causing immune cells to release chemicals called cytokines.

"We know that some of these cytokines can activate the nerves that relay signals from the body to the brain," Lowry said in a telephone interview.

Serotonin link

The stimulated nerves cause certain neurons in the brain to release a chemical called serotonin into the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in mood regulation, among other things.

"Only a very small number of neurons in the brain make serotonin, but they have massive branching projections to every part of the brain," Lowry said.

Scientists think the lack of serotonin in the brain is thought to cause depression in people.

Previous studies have linked early childhood exposure to bacteria to protection against allergies and asthma in adulthood. The new finding take this idea, called the "hygiene hypothesis," a step further, and suggests bacteria-exposure not only boosts our immune systems, but alters our vulnerability to conditions such as depression as well.

"These studies help us understand how the body communicates with the brain and why a healthy immune system is important for maintaining mental health," Lowry said. "They also leave us wondering if we shouldn�t all be spending more time playing in the dirt."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070413/sc_livescience/depressedgoplayinthedirt;_ylt=ArriZ9gTQ321tmuKMR5KnowPLBIF

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Coral Castle

2007-04-12T05:39:44Z

I just found out about this place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhzC_8-kszA

interesting!

love all-ways,
mem

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Early Earth Was Purple

2007-04-11T22:01:01Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070410/sc_livescience/earlyearthwaspurplestudysuggests;_ylt=AnvoyKDcCd0K_ZXbyEbKj08PLBIF

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Apr 10, 12:15 PM ET

The earliest life on Earth might have been just as purple as it is green today, a scientist claims.
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Ancient microbes might have used a molecule other than chlorophyll to harness the Sun’s rays, one that gave the organisms a violet hue.

Chlorophyll, the main photosynthetic pigment of plants, absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths from the Sun and reflects green ones, and it is this reflected light that gives plants their leafy color. This fact puzzles some biologists because the sun transmits most of its energy in the green part of the visible spectrum.

“Why would chlorophyll have this dip in the area that has the most energy?” said Shil DasSarma, a microbial geneticist at the University of Maryland.

After all, evolution has tweaked the human eye to be most sensitive to green light (which is why images from night-vision goggles are tinted green). So why is photosynthesis not fine-tuned the same way?

Possible answer

DasSarma thinks it is because chlorophyll appeared after another light-sensitive molecule called retinal was already present on early Earth. Retinal, today found in the plum-colored membrane of a photosynthetic microbe called halobacteria, absorbs green light and reflects back red and violet light, the combination of which appears purple.

Primitive microbes that used retinal to harness the sun’s energy might have dominated early Earth, DasSarma said, thus tinting some of the first biological hotspots on the planet a distinctive purple color.

Being latecomers, microbes that used chlorophyll could not compete directly with those utilizing retinal, but they survived by evolving the ability to absorb the very wavelengths retinal did not use, DasSarma said.

“Chlorophyll was forced to make use of the blue and red light, since all the green light was absorbed by the purple membrane-containing organisms,” said William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland, who helped DasSarma develop his idea.

Chlorophyll more efficient

The researchers speculate that chlorophyll- and retinal-based organisms coexisted for a time. “You can imagine a situation where photosynthesis is going on just beneath a layer of purple membrane-containing organisms,” DasSarma told LiveScience.

But after a while, the researchers say, the balance tipped in favor of chlorophyll because it is more efficient than retinal.

“Chlorophyll may not sample the peak of the solar spectrum, but it makes better use of the light that it does absorb,” Sparks explained.

DasSarma admits his ideas are currently little more than speculation, but says they fit with other things scientists know about retinal and early Earth.

For example, retinal has a simpler structure than chlorophyll, and would have been easier to produce in the low-oxygen environment of early Earth, DasSarma said.

Also, the process for making retinal is very similar to that of a fatty acid, which many scientists think was one of the key-ingredients for the development of cells.

“Fatty acids were likely needed to form the membranes in the earliest cells,” DasSarma said.

Lastly, halobacteria, a microbe alive today that uses retinal, is not a bacterium at all. It belongs to a group of organisms called archaea, whose lineage stretches back to a time before Earth had an oxygen atmosphere.

Taken together, these different lines of evidence suggest retinal formed earlier than chlorophyll, DasSarma said.

The team presented its so-called “purple Earth” hypothesis earlier this year at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), and it is also detailed in the latest issue of the magazine American Scientist. The team also plans to submit the work to a peer-reviewed science journal later this year.

Caution needed

David Des Marais, a geochemist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, calls the purple Earth hypothesis “interesting,” but cautions against making too much of one observation.

“I’m a little cautious about looking at who’s using which wavelengths of light and making conclusions about how things were like 3 or 4 billion years ago,” said Des Marais, who was not involved in the research.

Des Marais said an alternative explanation for why chlorophyll doesn’t absorb green light is that doing so might actually harm plants.

“That energy comes screaming in. It’s a two-edged sword,” Des Marais said in a telephone interview. “Yes, you get energy from it, but it’s like people getting 100 percent oxygen and getting poisoned. You can get too much of a good thing.”

Des Marais points to cyanobacteria, a photosynthesizing microbe with an ancient history, which lives just beneath the ocean surface in order to avoid the full brunt of the Sun.

“We see a lot of evidence of adaptation to get light levels down a bit,” Des Marais said. “I don’t know that there’s necessarily an evolutionary downside to not being at the peak of the solar spectrum.”

Implications for astrobiology

If future research validates the purple Earth hypothesis, it would have implications for scientists searching for life on distant worlds, the researchers say.

“We should make sure we don’t lock into ideas that are entirely centered on what we see on Earth,” said DasSarma’s colleague, Neil Reid, also of the STScI.

For example, one biomarker of special interest in astrobiology is the “red edge” produced by plants on Earth. Terrestrial vegetation absorbs most, but not all, of the red light in the visible spectrum. Many scientists have proposed using the small portion of reflected red light as an indicator of life on other planets.

“I think when most people think about remote sensing, they’re focused on chlorophyll-based life,” DasSarma said. “It may be that is the more prominent one, but if you happen to see a planet that is at this early stage of evolution, and you’re looking for chlorophyll, you might miss it because you’re looking at the wrong wavelength.”

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France puts secret UFO archive on Web

2007-03-23T22:53:06Z

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

PARIS - The saucer-shaped object is said to have touched down in the south of France and then zoomed off. It left behind scorch marks and that haunting age-old question: Are we alone? This is just one of the cases from France's secret "X-Files" — some 100,000 documents on supposed UFOs and sightings of other unexplained phenomena that the French space agency is publishing on the Internet.

France is the first country to put its entire weird sightings archive online, said Jacques Patenet, who heads the space agency's UFO cell — the Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena.

Their oldest recorded sighting dates from 1937, Patenet told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. The first batch of archives went up on the agency's Web site this week, drawing a server-busting wave of traffic.

"The Web site exploded in two hours. We suspected that there was a certain amount of interest, but not to this extent," Patenet said.

The archive includes police and expert reports, witness sketches (some are childlike doodlings), maps, photos and video and audio recordings. In all, the archive has some 1,650 cases on record and about 6,000 witness accounts.

The space agency, known by its French initials CNES, said it is making them public to draw the scientific community's attention to unexplained cases and because their secrecy generated suspicions that officials were hiding something.

"There's always this impression of plots, of secrets, of wanting to hide things," Patenet said. "The great danger would be to leave the field open to sects and charlatans."

He said many cases were unexplained lights in the sky. "Only 20 to 30" could be classified as "Objet Volant Non Identifie" — UFOs that appeared to be physical objects, leaving "marks on the ground, radar images," he said.

Even Charles de Gaulle, France's wartime hero who became president, got the UFO bug.

"In 1954, there was a wave of sightings of phenomena in France, and it went up to the highest levels of state. Gen. de Gaulle himself assigned ... an aide and told him, 'Look into this for me, study it to see if something needs to be done,'" Patenet said.

That year, there were hundreds of sightings over several months, but generally there are 50 to 100 reported each year.

Only 9 percent of France's strange phenomena have been fully explained, the agency said. Experts found likely reasons for another 33 percent, and 30 percent could not be identified for lack of information.

Other cases were impossible to crack. The most baffling were labeled "Class D aerospace phenomena" — which the agency defines as "inexplicable despite precise testimonies and the (good) quality of material information gathered." Some 28 percent of sightings fall into this category.

Patenet singled out the January 1981 case of the saucer-shaped object that a witness said he saw land in Trans-en-Provence, a village inland from the French Riviera.

Some 8 feet across, the zinc-colored object made a whistling noise as it landed. The witness later drew a picture: It resembled a wok with a lid and legs.

"The machine stayed a few seconds on the ground and then left very quickly but it left marks that were analyzed and allowed us to determine that the ground had been heated up, that the object must have weighed several hundred kilos (pounds), and that surrounding plants underwent biological changes," said Patenet.

"So something really happened. It really defies analysis," he said.

The agency said everything in the archive would be published, except for psychological reports about witnesses and their names.

Most of the time, witnesses were sincere about what they saw, Patenet said.

"Very few look for publicity because they fear most of all that they will not be taken seriously."

Still, there were frauds.

In 1979, in Cergy-Pontoise outside Paris, a man showed up at a police station claiming his friend had been abducted by a UFO — a bright light that appeared on the road and swallowed up his car. Several days later, the man purportedly reappeared in a field, emerging out of a sphere of light.

Investigators went so far as to test the man's blood for signs that he had recently experienced weightlessness — and they found none. The agency labeled it a hoax.

Some cases took years to unravel. In 1985, two farmers near the Atlantic coastal city of Royan saw a burning object drop into a field nearby.

Experts initially concluded that it was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. Eventually they realized it was a piece of German World War II ordnance that spontaneously exploded four decades after the war.

Among the unexplained cases, one of the most perplexing concerned a 1994 Air France flight. While flying over the Paris region, the crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering on the horizon and constantly changing shape. The case "has never been explained to this day, and leaves the door open to all possible hypotheses," the agency wrote.

So, do we have neighbors out there, after all?

"I don't have an answer to that," said Patenet. "Even if there is such a planet, given the size of the universe, what is the probability that two civilizations ... will meet or come across each other? I really don't know. It's very complicated. It's incalculable."

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Associated Press writer Angela Doland in Paris contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

http://www.cnes.fr

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_eu/france_ufos

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Solar Storm Warning (2012)

2007-03-21T19:17:16Z

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm

March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.

Like the quiet before a storm.

This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.

Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima—and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.

The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.

We have something similar here on Earth—the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.

The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.

Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science & Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields."
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"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto—new sunspots!

All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)."

When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011."

Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.

"History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."

Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.

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Multidimensional Universe

2007-03-20T07:10:01Z

Mathematicians solve E8 structure

Mon Mar 19, 8:17 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - After four years of intensive collaboration, 18 top mathematicians and computer scientists from the United States and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics, scientists said late Sunday.

Jeffrey Adams, project leader and mathematics professor at the University of Maryland said E8 was discovered over a century ago, in 1887, and until now, no one thought the structure could ever be understood.

"This groundbreaking achievement is significant both as an advance in basic knowledge, as well as a major advance in the use of large scale computing to solve complicated mathematical problems," Adams said.

He added that the mapping of E8 may well have unforeseen implications in mathematics and physics which won't be evident for years to come.

E8 belongs to so-called Lie groups that were invented by a 19th century Norwegian mathematician, Sophus Lie, to study symmetry.

The theory holds that underlying any symmetrical object, such as a sphere, is a Lie group.

Balls, cylinders or cones are familiar examples of symmetric three-dimensional objects.

However, mathematicians study symmetries in higher dimensions. In fact, E8 itself is 248-dimensional.

Today string theorists search for a theory of the universe by looking at E8 X E8.

The scientists said the magnitude of the E8 calculation invited comparison with the
Human Genome Project.

While the human genome, which contains all the genetic information of a cell, is less than a gigabyte in size, the result of the E8 calculation, which contains all the information about E8, is 60 gigabytes in size, they said.

This is enough to store 45 days of continuous music in MP3-format. If written out on paper, the answer would cover an area the size of Manhattan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070319/ts_alt_afp/ussciencemathematicsfrancegermany_070319121747

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Pest control

2006-11-11T05:01:46Z

http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/health/homeremedies.htm

OLD FASHIONED HOME REMEDIES
FOR DETERRING PESTS

Some suggested old home remedies. No endorsement is intended nor liability assumed since most of these home remedies are not proven or approved as pest control recommendations.

1.

Banish ants from your pet's food dish by wiping the floor under and around it with a cloth dipped in kerosene. Then stand the food dish in a larger dish containing water.
2.

Keep ants from crawling up a picnic table by standing each leg in a small pan of water.
3.

To kill ants, use a paste of equal parts of borax and confectioner sugar.
4.

Mix mint apple jelly and boric acid for ant control (two tablespoons boric acid powder per 10 ounces of mint apple jelly).
5.

Leave a few tea bags of mint tea near areas where the ants seem most active. Dry, crushed mint leaves or cloves also work as ant deterrents.
6.

Keep a small spray bottle handy, and spray the ants with a bit of soapy water.
7.

Mix peanut butter (six parts), brown sugar (one part), one-half teaspoon salt with boric acid (one part) for ant control.
8.

For ant control, spray vinegar around door and window frame, under appliances, and along other known ant trails.
9.

If ants are coming in through doors or windows, put a cinnamon stick across the path. They will not cross it.
10.

Mix three cups water, one cup sugar and four teaspoons boric acid powder for ant control. (Pour a over a cotton wad in a small dish or bottle cap.)
11.

Sliced or crushed cucumbers to keep cockroaches away from food.
12.

Mix equal parts of boric acid powder, powdered sugar, and cornmeal as a poison bait for cockroaches.
13.

Mix equal parts of plaster of Paris and powdered sugar as a poison bait for cockroaches.
14.

It is a little known fact that roaches like high places. If you put borax on TOP of your kitchen cabinets (not inside), if space allows between ceiling and cabinets, the roaches will take the borax to their nests, killing all of them.
15.

Keep a spray bottle of soapy water on hand. Spraying roaches directly with soapy water will kill them.
16.

Walk through a room wearing white socks to detect fleas. Dark fleas jumping on the white background are easily seen.
17.

Use banana peels to repel fleas.
18.

Feed yeast to dogs to repel fleas.
19.

Fleas HATE Stash Earl Grey. Tear open a few bags, scatter the tea about on your carpet and vacuum up in a few days.
20.

For flea control, add a little vinegar to your pet's drinking water to fight fleas and mange.
21.

For flea control add ½ teaspoon to the wash water or a few drops to the pets shampoo.
22.

Suspend a light bulb over a pan of oil or soapy water to attract and drown fleas during the night.
23.

For a fly repellent - 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup Avon Skin So Soft, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon Eucalyptus oil, 1 tablespoon citronella oil - Put in a spray bottle and spray dog's coat.
24.

Mix water with cornstarch into a paste and apply. This is effective in drawing out the poisons of most insect bites and is also an effective remedy for diaper rash.
25.

Rub jewel weed on mosquito bites and poison ivy to control itch.
26.

For mosquito bites apply lime juice diluted with water on bites with cotton ball.
27.

Mozzies won't bite if you mix 4 parts glycerine, 4 parts alcohol, 1 part eucalyptus oil. Or make a solution of equal parts of isopropyl alcohol and methyl phthalate.
28.

If you're using the barbeque, throw a bit of sage or rosemary on the coals to repel mosquitos.
29.

Put an opened bottle of Oil of Pennyroyal Essence in the room you want mosquito free.
30.

Use Avon's Skin-So-Soft as an insect repellent for people and pets (good mosquito repellent). It helps relieve itching caused by insect bites and dry skin. Also, mix five parts water, one part Skin-So-Soft and mist on show animals. Brush in to make their coats gleam and keep insects off so your animal won't fidget.
31.

Use hedge apples for control of crickets and spiders.
32.

For grass and weeds growing between stones or bricks on walks or terraces, sprinkle 20 Mule Team borax powder and sweep into cracks (one application every other year).
33.

Apply tobacco and snuff juice for wasp stings and bites.
34.

Use beer or yeast dissolved in water in pit fall traps (cups sunk into the ground) to attract and drown snails and slugs.
35.

Prevent mosquitoes from breeding in rain barrels by applying 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the water's surface.
36.

Tick and Fly Spray - two cups white vinegar, one cup Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil, one cup water, one tablespoon eucalyptus oil (available at drugstores and health food stores).
37.

Pour hot boiling water and a strong cleaning detergent down the drain to eliminate nuisance gnats and flies.

PLANTS & HERBS

* Basil - plant close to the house and it will repel mosquitos.
* Lavender - plant around the house to repel flies and mosquitos.
* Castor Bean Plant - plant in pots within the house; replant outdoors to repel mozzies.
* Scented Geraniums - plant in pots and the garden to repel mosquitos
* Citrosa Plants - plant in pots and the garden to repel mosquitos
* Lemon Thyme - plant in pots to repel mosquitos
* Citronella Grass - plant in pots to repel mosquitos
* Common Marigold - plant in pots and the garden to repel mosquitos
* Thai Lemon Grass - (Cymbopogon citratus) is an effective mosquito repellent.
* Rosemary - powdered Rosemary leaves are used as a flea and tick repellent
* Chamomile - repels mosquitos
* Citriodora - repels mosquitos

MORE USEFUL PLANTS FOR YOUR GARDEN

* Red Raspberry Leaves (Rubus idacus) - the leaves strengthen the muscles of the uterus
* Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) - leaves used whole or in powdered form for bleeding cuts
* Hen-and-chicks (houseleek) - Sempervivum tetorum - soothes minor stings and burns
* St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - used for burns and scrapes
* Yarrow (achillea millefolium) - stops bleeding

OFF THE SHELF LOW COST PEST CONTROL

The range of low toxic pest control preparations available to gardeners is expanding. Here are some of the main products/ingredients available.

CONDIES CRYSTALS - (Potassium permanganate) A few drops in a bucket will turn the water pink. Controls powdery mildew and is used by some gardeners to kill ants in potted plants. Toxic to worms!

COPPER SPRAYS - Copper oxychloride, cupric hydroxide and Bordeaux mixture are used to control a range of fungus diseases including mildews, anthracnose and leaf spots.

DERRIS DUST - Derris is made from the ground root of the rotenone plant (Derris elliptica). It is used to control chewing insects. While it is allowable under organic growing regimes it is toxic to worms. Some gardeners use it for lawn grub control.

DIATOMACEOUS EARTH - Composed of the ground tiny salt-water organisms called diatoms, diatomaceous earth has microscopically sharp edges that desiccate insects on contact or kill them when ingested. Please note that this is insecticide grade diatomaceous earth, not the material use in swimming pool filters.

DIPEL or BT - This is a naturally occurring bacteria (Bacillus thuringiensis) that affects some types of caterpillars. It has been cultured and is available in a powdered form from nurseries. It is sprayed on to plants.

NEEM - Neem oil is extracted from the neem tree (Azadiracta indica). It kills insects by contact, ingestion and also acts as an anti-feedant. It is currently only registered for controlling of fleas.

PHEROMONE TRAPS - A pheromone is a non-toxic species-specific scent produced by the female insect to attract the male. Pheromones are often used as the attractive in baits and traps.

PYRETHRUM - Natural pyrethrum is extracted from the flowers of Chrysanthemum cinerariafolium. It will kill predators if used indiscriminately, so be sure to spray late in the day when bees have returned to their hives. It is used for a wide range of insect pests, particularly beetles. Synthetic pyrethroids or products in which natural pyrethrum is mixed with piperonyl butoxide are not allowable under organic gardening regimes.

SEAWEED SPRAYS - Foliar sprays made from seaweed have been found to be very effective in reducing fungus diseases that affect leaves and flowers.

SOAP SPRAYS - Soap sprays break down the waxy layer of the insect exoskeleton causing the insect to dehydrate. Be sure to use pure soap and not detergent.

SULPHUR - Dusting sulphur and wettable sulphur preparations are effective against mites and powdery mildew.

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SYNCHROQUAKE: Penta, Random and Zul on Wed. November 8 2006 Il Pirata,

2006-11-05T23:59:45Z

SYNCHROQUAKE: Penta, Random and Zul on Wed. November 8 2006 Il Pirata,
SF

Hello friends!
The party season in San Francisco doesn't seem to be slowing down. This
week we are bringing PENTA from AuraQuake to entertain us on Wednesday,
November 8 2006 at Il Pirata in San Francisco. Nikita and Catia were
staying in the city for a couple of months and are going again on tour to
South America, for the fifth straight season. Before leaving the
country though, Nikita has accidentally finished his third album "Horn
Please" which he will be previewing for us before its official release in
February. Apart from the album, he will also play some tunes from the new
compilation "Jitter Glow" on AuraQuake that will be released on
December 1st. For more info, please visit www.auraquake.com .

Our auditory landlords for the evening will be RANDOM and ZUL, bringing
you your weekly dose of synchrosounds.

$5.00 will be asked at the door for this special event. A small price
to pay for having some quality international artist rock the dancefloor
for us! A limited amount of AuraQuake and Penta T-shirts will also be
available for those who are interested. Each T-shirt comes with a free
CD of course.

Once more, SYNCHRONIZE is an open, (usually) FREE (except for when we
have international artists playing ;), unaffiliated party that always
provides the friendly atmosphere it is loved for. Music brought to you by
our guest DJs, as well as by the resident Synchronauts: Zul, Sentient,
Barratt and Random. Come get some tasty drinks, dance and chill out
with the friends and family! We hope to see lots of your smiling faces
there this week. :)

Cheers!

******************************
Il Pirata is on 2007 16th Street between Potrero Ave. and Utah Street,
and is open from 10pm - 2am. Check out our website for directions, as
well as weekly changes to the lineup.

worldvibe.com/synchronize

Love n Light, ^o^--*oO

Barratt, Ross, Zul & B

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what is going on now....

2006-11-02T07:06:55Z

NEW MILLENNIUM BEING

This newsletter supplements the free on-line Kundalini Yoga lessons. Here is your lesson for the month of Scorpio, which can also serve as a guide for understanding and working with your emotional body. This is a long one, so you might wish to print it out and digest it over the month. There are definitely things that we must work on and not just read. At the end are ideas on how to surrender to your own flow. Be sure to get started with these practices in your daily Sadhana/Kundalini yoga and meditation sessions. Blessings, Gururattana :+)

#125 THE SCORPIO PATH

REVEALING HIDDEN TRUTH AND TREASURES
October 20, 2006
By Guru Rattana, Ph.D.

SKY EVENTS

The SUN enters Scorpio October 23 at 6:27 AM PDT (1:27 PM GMT) and stays through November 22 at 3:02 AM PST (11:02 AM GMT)

The TAURUS FULL MOON is November 5 at 4:59 AM PST (12:59 PM GMT.) The Moon is at 12 degrees Taurus and the Sun is at 12 degrees Scorpio.

The SCORPIO NEW MOON is November 20 at 2:19 PM PST (10:19 PM GMT.) at 28 degrees Scorpio.

The JUPITER/SATURN SQUARE was exact October 18th. (Discussed in depth in NMBeing #123 and #121.)

The dynamic of the T-square of the fixed signs (also discussed in #123) (squares and oppositions between planets in Scorpio, Taurus, Leo and Aquarius) continues to play out.

October 23rd and 24th the Sun, Mars and Venus join Mercury, Jupiter and the Moon in Scorpio. Except for the Moon which stay in a sign for only 2 ½ days, the other five planets stay in Scorpio through November 16th.

At the TAURUS FULL MOON, the Sun, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are ALL in Scorpio. The Moon closely squares Mars, Venus and the Sun and loosely (orb of 8 and 13 degrees) squares Mercury and Jupiter. Saturn in Leo tightly squares Jupiter and Mercury and very loosely squares Venus, Mars and the Sun. Neptune opposes Saturn (7degree orb), squares the Moon, and squares Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, the Sun and Mars (orb 9 degrees.)

At the SCORPIO NEW MOON Mercury, Mars, the Sun, Moon and Jupiter are all in Scorpio. The Sun, Moon and Jupiter are conjunct (same degree/place). Saturn squares the Sun, Moon and Jupiter. Neptune squares Mars.

URANUS goes DIRECT on November 19th. The atmosphere is one of optimism as the Sun enters Sagittarius on November 22 and Jupiter moves into Sagittarius the 23rd. Saturn turns retrograde on December 5th.

MERCURY goes RETROGRADE October 28th and will remain retrograde through November 17th. Mercury is in Scorpio from October 2 through December 7th.

SCORPIO GETS OUR ATTENTION

Scorpio may rule the underworld and hide in our subconscious basement, but it does make the truth known, whether we like it or not. We are in for a heavy hitting Scorpio thriller starting October 23rd. We are well advised to tune into our neutral mind so we have a balanced place from which to deal with the truth that is about to be revealed.

October 23rd and 24th the Sun, Mars and Venus join Mercury, Jupiter and the Moon in Scorpio. Four planets, the Sun and the Moon in one sign and this close together is a rare occurrence, and bound to get our attention. The Moon of course says in a sign for only 2 ½ days, but the other five are joined in Scorpio through November 16th. (JUPITER October 26, 2005 - November 24, 2006, MERCURY October 2- December 7, VENUS October 24-November 16, MARS October 24- December 5)

In sum, "it is a hot time in the old town tonight." We better have our neutral mind in place as we are confronted with truth AND consequences.

Adding to the intensity, Saturn in Leo and Neptune in Aquarius form a T-square in fixed signs with the planets in Scorpio. The issues of the fixed signs discussed in NMB #121 and 123 continue to confront us. Only Uranus in Pisces and Pluto in Sagittarius are not in fixed signs.

Because Mercury is retrograde, it will be within one degree of Jupiter from October 21 to 31. The Jupiter/Mercury pair brings optimism, expanded awareness and strategic thinking.

A TIME OF BIG CHANGE

So what does this mean for us? First and foremost it is time for a big change. We will feel the pressure of a lot of raw energy and experience an overdose of visceral emotional intensity. We are being forced to change personally and collectively. Personal power is a major theme. Self-empowerment would be the conscious way to go. This can be an exciting time, IF we follow the deep motivations of our heart, release the brakes, surrender to the unfoldment, and go for the gold. However, for the unconscious members of the human race, whose reptilian brain and shadow side commands, power struggles, aggression masked as self-defense, lack of restraint, fear, loss and disempowerment can be played out.

At the personal level, issues of debt, over-extension, taking risks and deception can arise. If you are over-extended, cut out non-essentials. This is also a time of opportunity, but make sure you have all the facts and don't sign anything or make any definite commitments until after Mercury goes direct November 17th.

In the financial and political arenas, Scorpio's probing can reveal some nasty secrets. The energy of death can lead to collapse of what is no longer workable and expose corrupt attempts to control public resources to maintain power and wealth.

Libra is polite and fair. Scorpio is direct, honest and exposes the naked truth. Scorpio is about transformation and the natural cycles of life. Death is a natural part of regeneration. What is no longer useful will be eliminated. What is no longer relevant will be exposed. What is buried in denial will bubble to the surface. Scorpio makes sure that we see what we need to see and change what we need to change.

Consciousness, honesty and integrity are required to make it through the Scorpionic maze.

Scorpio exposes our shadow. What is the dark side of Scorpio? "Inability to trust. Double standards. Addiction to drama. Black and white thinking." *(1)

WHERE'S MY SCORPIO?

Not everyone has planets in Scorpio, but the energy of Scorpio is part of everyone's birth chart. There are three ways to identify where and how the Scorpio energy plays out in our lives. (1) Locating the house or houses that contain Scorpio, helps us identify the arena in life where we confront our Scorpio issues. (2) Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, so the sign and house location of our natal Pluto also indicates how and where we confront our dark side, as well as claim our inner power. (3) The 8th house is the house or territory ruled by Pluto and associated with Scorpio. Any planets in our 8th house are immersed in Scorpio issues and power.

All of the above help us identify how and where we confront our deepest fears, long to express our most profound desires, repress or deny our truth, quest for our inner power and wish to shine our light. In mythology, Pluto was both the God of the Underworld and the God of Wealth. *(2) And herein lies the secret of Scorpio, Pluto and the 8th house. Our real treasures are hidden even from ourselves until we dig deep into our psyche. The excavation process involves facing our fears and our shadow, ferreting out the truth that lies buried in these distortions, exposing these misperceptions, and claiming the hidden gifts that long to serve the Light.

TAURUS FULL MOON - NOVEMBER 5TH

The Taurus full moon highlights Scorpio issues and brings to our attention critical issues that must be addressed. MARS stimulates us to action. Mars in Scorpio makes us examine the nature of our motivation. "Why are we doing what we're doing? And why are we not doing what we should be doing?" *(3) VENUS in Scorpio asks us to examine if what we are doing is going to make us feel authentically satisfied or just breed more discontent. MERCURY in Scorpio asks us to not only speak the truth, but to listen to the truth. JUPITER in Scorpio invites us to expand beyond our fears and stuckness so we can enjoy the wealth of our soul.

The three outer planets are all players in this full moon. PLUTO (semi-squares Sun and Mars) unlocks hidden power and truth. It is easier to see how our ego camouflages our true identity and how hype is a poor substitute for authenticity. NEPTUNE squares the Moon in Taurus and the five planets in Scorpio. Neptune in Aquarius simply dissolves the veil of ignorance, shining the light of truth for all to see.

URANUS trines the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars and sextiles the Moon releasing our burdens so we can be open and flow with an unencumbered spirit. Trines (120 degrees) facilitate flow and connection. This configuration makes it possible to let go, not be afraid, and relax into our next moves. If we allow ourselves to go with the flow, we will be guided and things can turn around over night. Letting go makes it possible to align with cosmic forces. We are not only assisted, becoming unstuck releases extra power to do what we need and want to do. Uranus continues to enliven the party as it stations direct on November 19, just before the Scorpio New Moon.

The Taurus full moon highlights Scorpio issues, bringing unconsciousness programs, motivations and beliefs into awareness so we can release debilitating baggage, claim our authentic power and move forward on our soul's mission. During this intense time it is important to remember that Scorpio and Pluto are not out to punish us. Their mission is actually to help set us free by showing us what we need to address. If we listen, take our head out of the sand of denial, and get with the self-empowerment program, we can use all this energy to our advantage. When we stop being a victim and step into the seat of responsibility, life gets easier. Ultimately the Taurus full moon is trying to clear the emotional drama so we can experience more ease, comfort and worldly pleasures.

SCORPIO NEW MOON - SPIRITUAL CROSSROADS -- NOVEMBER 20th

With 5 heavenly bodies in Scorpio (Sun, Mars, Moon, Jupiter and Mercury), this is an extraordinary new moon. We are at a spiritual crossroads. We can either choose to continue in the same direction or we can make a major life change and alter our course. Whatever we choose, the old has got to go. The Sun, Moon and Jupiter are all within one degree of each other and Mars and Mercury are close behind. At the 29th degree of Scorpio, we are being tested by Scorpio. This is progress report time. How far have we advanced in mastering our Scorpio lessons?

To understand the dynamics of this new moon, we must realize that Scorpio walks the path of a double-edged sword. It must always choose between Light and Dark. But the choice is not that simple. We must give up the past in order to move forward. And we must embrace the dark, and forgive the past in order to let it go. We have to descend into the underworld of our subconscious, confront our own mortality and in some way die, in order to be reborn into greater awareness and empowerment. The process of death and rebirth takes place within ourselves, where we are alone with our self-tormentors.

Fortunately if we pay attention, Scorpio always shows us a way out. The question is can we go deep enough to find the escape route. With Jupiter close to the Sun and Moon, this new moon offers us enough light to show us the way out of our internal prison. We will see possibilities that we did not see before. Our expanded perspective will free our mind to take advantage of the opportunities available.

QUANTUM LEAP - ALL PLANETS DIRECT FOR TWO WEEKS

From the 20th of November through the 5th of December every planet is in direct motion! This is the only two weeks in 2006 when all planets will be moving direct. The way is clear. What will we decide to do with our life? What direction will we go? What path will we take? Breakthroughs, quantum leap, leap of faith and full speed ahead are the themes launched by

Uranus going direct on November 19th.

The atmosphere is one of optimism as the Sun enters Sagittarius on November 22 and Jupiter moves into Sagittarius the 23rd, completing its yearlong journey through Scorpio. We have had one year to look deeply into our unconscious, examine our directing beliefs and assumptions, confront our fears and shadow and get in touch with our deepest heart's desires. Jupiter in Sagittarius will expand our hopes and opportunities and make us more committed to our spiritual path.

Saturn turns retrograde on December 5th. So enjoy the feeling of unfettered freedom before the taskmaster reminds us of the limits and of the material world and the work it takes to manifest our dreams. The good news is that Saturn energy makes manifestation possible.

SCORPIO - THE SECOND WATER SIGN

Scorpio is the second water sign. There are three zodiac signs in each of the elements. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces represent water or the emotional body. They each teach us how to express and master the water element. Cancer teaches us how to nurture. Scorpio instructs us how to create through attraction. Pisces shows us how to be devotional.

"Like all water signs, Scorpio finds a natural habitat is the world of feelings and instinct. Its emotional reservoir is incredibly strong, since its fixed nature is resistant to easy movement, allowing the watery element to seep into rarely accessed depths where it is not easily stirred, processed or purified." *(4) Scorpio's unexpressed emotional energy is the source of both inner torment and dynamic magnetism. Even a "perfect childhood," cannot prevent young Scorpio from being disturbed and troubled by its deep emotional rivers.

SCORPIO'S EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY

IMMATURE MATURE

Denial acceptance, awareness

Distrust trust

Black and white thinking see things the way they are¸ embrace all

Double standards non-judgment

Addiction to drama intense engagement in real life

Commotional emotions connection to the pulse of life

Inner torment, troubled strong emotional core

Overpowering fear and anger inner truth, insight

Exhaust self with efforting magnetize opportunities

Downward spiral to depression focus on the Light and transformation

Deceitful ability to recognize deception

Corrupt naked honesty

Controlling inspiring

Manipulative strategic thinking

Need to control ability to surrender

Power struggles profitable and meaningful collaboration

Desire for control desire for highest good

Annoying poking at offer penetrating wisdom

Fear of dissolution able to hold on to identity and oneness

Manipulate collaborate, merge

Stuck flow with natural cycles

Isolated and alone deep intimacy with transformative powers

SCORPIO'S BASIC NATURE

Scorpionic energy is intense, driven, secretive and protective. Scorpio is committed, real, and in no way flippant or superficial. Scorpio's emotions run deep, are strong and passionate and not easily expressed. *(5) Scorpio is not relaxed or easy going within itself or in relationships. When Scorpio withdraws and detaches to engage in its own personal process, it can appear to be cold-hearted and leave a partner "with an acute sense of abandonment." *(6) Scorpios are loyal, "take their responsibilities seriously, and respond positively to trust that is sincerely invested in them." *(7) Ultimately, however, even in relationship, they must follow their own path.

Scorpio is insightful, sensitive and philosophical. Through its powerful personal magnetism, Scorpio draws people and opportunities to itself. It learns the hard way that efforting is exhausting and many times counterproductive. Its motivating will strongly influences others in relationships and positions of power. Scorpio's ability to persevere usually guarantees its success.

Scorpio shies "away from positions that involve long periods of being the center of attention." Scorpio's territory is underground. Bright "light is stark and inhospitable to them. Although they enjoy pulling the strings of influence, they prefer to do so behind the scenes or in a way that ensures their personal privacy is preserved." *(8)

THE FUNDAMENTAL DYNAMICS OF SCORPIO

Scorpio's powerful and subterranean reservoir of emotional energy makes it sexually magnetic, charismatic, enigmatic and resilient, with an imperturbable reserve of will to back up its fixity of purpose. This feminine, nocturnal and autumnal sign should never be underestimated. It has a tendency to be defensive, a predisposition to intensity and an icy detachment that makes it difficult to comprehend.

This feminine sign carefully guards and internalizes its energy. Scorpio is a worldly-wise sign that operates through emotional and instinctual gut reactions. Taking advantage of its magnetism, it allows its energy to attract to it. It is capable of probing to the depths of any problem, exposing and eliminating whatever is superfluous and artificial. Its penetrating emotional and psychic sensitivity, ability to penetrate superficial gloss, and its almost compulsive ability to focus on a problem allows it to get at the root cause and offer a meaningful solution. *(9)

In mythology Scorpio plays the role of guardians, custodians and protectors, whose power comes from its cool and calculated focus. The ability to remain undisturbed by external distractions frees it to concentrate on strategic defense.

Reminding us that archetypes represent and bring into focus the extremes of that theme, Scorpio can be a master of deceit as well as a master at recognizing deception, superficiality and facades. Scorpio delivers us to a deeper level of truth by penetrating to levels of reality most of us prefer not to even contemplate. If we want real communication with Scorpio we have to be totally honest and direct. Scorpio can't be fooled, and it doesn't waste its time on pleasantries. *(10)

SCORPIO IS OUR INNER MARS

In Vedic astrology both Aries and Scorpio are ruled by Mars. Aries, the active, externally oriented expression of Mars, is open, direct and indulges in the bravado of war and competition. Scorpio is the internally oriented expression of Mars. Scorpio does not make open war, seldom initiates attacks, and carefully holds its power in reserve. Covert, secretive, silent and stealthy, Scorpio is more preoccupied with strategic defense, and neutralizing the enemy through infiltration and ruse.

Scorpio helps us understand where our inner Mars got repressed, suppressed, shamed and damaged -- where our deep emotional reservoir got blocked, stuck, disoriented and wounded. Scorpio teaches us that it is definitely better to examine the anger that we don't want to admit than to live our lives as wounded warriors. To live powerful, courageous and independent lives we have to examine our shadow so that it will not draw us into either victim or victimizer roles. This examination is a natural part of our developmental process.

If we ignore, deny or try to suppress our fear and rage when we are young, these unresolved emotions become deep conflicts and breed self-hatred. We unconsciously act out these repressed emotions until we acknowledge and make peace with them. If the emotional energy of our inner Mars/Scorpio is misdirected we feel troubled and drained of energy. When our inner Mars is not marginalized, its energy can be directed toward a mission.

When our emotional energy can be consciously directed to what we love, we can feel vital and strong. Instead of feeling like we are struggling against an antagonistic, hostile unidentifiable force, we feel supported by a deep confidence, strength and wisdom within ourselves. The gift of Scorpio is to uncover and empower our core emotional strength, which gives us the capacity for enduring patience, unquestioned determination and a natural resilience to meet all life's challenges with grace.

THE SYMBOLOGY OF SCORPIO'S PATH

No sign of the zodiac reveals or determines our level of consciousness. Each can be expressed in the most childish immature way or at the highest level of self-mastery. Our level of maturity and mastery is determined by our willingness and ability to learn our lessons and grow into adult expressions of our embodied soul. The possibility of all levels of mastery exists for each sign. And each has its challenges that we must both face and embrace.

The symbology of Scorpio offers us a chance to evolve from the scorpion, to the phoenix to the eagle. Our ability to ascend the ladder of evolutionary expression of this energy depends on acknowledging and accepting our dark side. Scorpio's core experience gets it in touch with the fact we humans are capable of demonic expressions. Scorpio teaches us to get in touch with this primal energy and figure out how to work with it. If we try to repress this energy and cage the beast in our subconscious, it will subtly, or not so subtly, manipulate our reality. It will control our life and how we project, attract and manifest in the world.

SCORPIO TELLS US THE TRUTH

Scorpio and Pluto tell us the truth. Some one has to do it! Or we will remain forever stuck in our denial and illusions! When we really pay attention to what Scorpio is showing us, we can find it appalling how we lie to ourselves and each other. It takes only a few hours in front of the television to be sickened by the depths of depravity and perversion that humans are not only capable of but actually indulge in. It is shocking how our whole culture revolves around a superficial bubble gum reality and how we buy into it as gospel truth. How could we not see what we are doing? The degree to which we see, why don't we ask why? Why don't we care? Why don't we do something about our low level of consciousness and existence?

To protect our sanity, we may limit the extent to which we torment ourselves with the atrocities and idiocies that systematically organize our political and economic lives. Making a business out of fear and gore is one of the major ways those in power control our minds and emotions. Buying into the deception is not the way out. But escapism and denial don't deliver us from evil either.

Some forms of denial can be used as protective mechanisms against the tyranny of political propaganda. How much "truth" about the human condition can we bear? How much violence is healthy? At what point do we feel overpowered by the forces in power and simply turn off the tube and live our lives the best we can? What perception of "reality" simply fosters an attitude of victimization, allowing us to continue wallowing in our stance of disempowerment?

How many facts are needed to motivate us to take responsibility and work together to create alternatives?

SCORPIO DIRECTS US TOWARD THE LIGHT

Although Scorpio is totally cognizant of the dark side of human nature, it doesn't encourage us to get caught in the claws of negativity or the muddy pools of the subconscious. The Scorpio archetype shows us a way out of the pit. Scorpio acknowledges the darkness, but directs us toward the Light. In fact, Scorpio teaches us that the only way out of the darkness is to turn our vision toward the Light. Of course, it isn't all that simple to extricate ourselves from our darkness, but Scorpio demonstrates that it is both possible and ultimately very rewarding.

Scorpio shows us that everything exists - good and evil, black and white, the wicked and the pure. If everything is possible, then what do we do? We have to make a choice. Responsibility is the stepping stone of Scorpio's deliverance from the under world.

Scorpio teaches us that the Dark and the Light both exist. One is part of the other. We are always evolving to higher levels of Lightness. Our path is to bring Light into darkness, to expose, not deny. To embrace, not condemn. To accept, not judge. To give up being a victim and take responsibility for our own lives.

SCORPIO HELPS US GET REAL

Getting real for Scorpio is accepting our evolutionary journey and getting thoroughly involved in the process - (1) witnessing our dark side, our less than optimal behaviors, and the extent to which we live robotic and unconscious lives, (2) acknowledging how our inner reality creates our outer reality, (3) learning how to let go of sub-optimal behaviors, beliefs, programs, (4) consciously engaging in the death and rebirth process of our own psyche, (5) always keeping in mind that there is a higher truth in the universe that expresses through our self, and (6) questing to embody this pure expression of our soul.

Scorpio lets us know that we can transform dark into light. But there is no quick fix or simplistic route. We have to take our physical and emotional bodies with us into the light. Evolution is not a mental, out-of-the body experience. Most people have no idea what to do with their emotional energy, which explains why we expend it in perverse activities, squander it in fear and anger, and try to sublimate it to not feel out of control.

Scorpio reminds us, again and again, that emotional energy can be denied only at our own expense - illness, crime, torment and meaningless existence. We have to patiently and lovingly transform and transmute our emotional energy that is buried in sensitive wounds, deep hurts, nagging dramas and obvious scars. Transcendence happens only after we have given up our need to control, judge and punish and have surrendered to the highest good. Scorpio does not let go easily, but let go it must to rise above the ashes of the past.

SCORPIO'S X-RAY VISION EXPOSES THE TRUTH

Scorpio has the uncanny capacity to see things exactly the way they are. Scorpio's X-ray vision unmasks facades and exposes whatever lurks in our subconscious. There is no hiding from Scorpio's penetrating gaze that uncovers our deepest secrets and exposes our debilitating self-deception. "Scorpio is like a prism through which the whole spectrum of good and evil becomes visible." *(11)

Scorpio exposes the dark side of human existence - cruelty, violence, murder, sexual perversion, dominance and submission, the forbidden and the taboo. Scorpio is magnetically drawn to experiences that the light-hearted don't dare to even contemplate. Scorpio does not hide under a façade of social acceptability. It excavates our buried secrets and unabashedly exposes them.

Scorpio is able to observe, acknowledge, and even immerse itself in horrors, identify how we have buried ourselves and lost our way, and then reveal truths that can liberate us from the quagmire of corruption and depravity.

DENIAL AND PROJECTION

Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, is the rooter router in our birth chart. Pluto performs the same function for the collective consciousness. Both Scorpio and Pluto's mission is to make us aware of how our unconscious manifests in our lives. Their task is to show us how our internal state of affairs determines both our personal and collective realities. When we cooly observe ourselves and others, we can clearly see that what we do, how we behave and how we relate are all determined by our inner state of being. Nastiness, aggression, defensiveness, kindness, compassion are all generated inside ourselves.

Our internal state determines our outer reality through an interrelated process of denial and projection. We use denial to protect our conscious awareness from seeing uncomfortable truths and facts that threaten our ego identity. Denial is a conscious or unconscious defense mechanism that refuses to acknowledge qualities, feelings, beliefs, motivations, desires, wants, needs, attitudes and facts about our self, others or the world. What we deny can be either true or untrue.

Projection is the result of denial and is made possible by the fact that our internal reality impacts our external reality. What we deny is externalized through projection. Whatever we are unwilling to recognize in our self, we see as a problem or a threat coming from people or circumstances outside ourselves. The tricky part of projection is that our illusion can become a reality because we draw to us what we most fear or dislike. Our projections create our reality whether what we believe is real or true, or not.

The first step in releasing ourselves from the denial/projection trap is to recognize what we are doing. It is both Scorpio's and Pluto's job to deliver us from denial. No one really enjoys this part of the maturation/empowerment process, but it is required to quit sabotaging ourselves and to move toward self-mastery.

One very important thing to remember is that we can deny both our positive and our negative attributes. And our denial can be both accurate and fallacious. Poverty consciousness is rooted in false assumptions about universal abundance. Low self-esteem is founded on inaccurate beliefs about our own merits and worthiness. To get the maximum benefit from this Scorpionic overdose, we need to be aware of how we underestimate ourselves, limit our success and settle for less than we deserve. For many people negative beliefs often cause more damage than hubris and ego trips.

PLUTO IN SAGITTARIUS - MORALITY AND IMMORALITY

Pluto's passage through Sagittarius from 1995 to 2008 is in the process of exposing political corruption and religious inconsistencies. And more is yet to come. Pluto in Sagittarius is making us aware of how both religious and political extremism create distrust and wars. And how both are a product of denial and projection on a mass scale. Both our personal and collective unconscious are up for deep scrutiny and cleansing.

The question of morality and immorality falls in Sagittarius's turf. It's Pluto's and Scorpio's job to show us the source and impact of this type of evil vs. good thinking. The first reality check is to observe that evil vs. good thinking creates polarization and division. It doesn't take much observation of the current world situation to note that both "the sacred and the secular are now profoundly disturbed and in conflict." *(12)

Polarized thinking positions everyone into one of two categories - either (1) with us or (2) against us. Polarization is a "Way of seeing the world - as a clear division into absolute and simplistic black and white versions of good and evil." *(13) (Saturn opposing Pluto between 2000-3 provoked polarized thinking.)

The political ruse for fostering polarized thinking is that the real reasons for going to war - expanding power, control and dominance over people, territory, and resources - can be eliminated from the discussion and effectively denied. Anyone who makes these arguments is shunned into the "evil" category of not supporting the soldiers or the country.

The problem is that, once categorically "defined and polarized, good and evil inevitably morph back into each other." *(14) The preachers (political, religious and corporate) of moral authority fall prey to their subconscious lust and greed. Denial and projection play out in illicit sexual encounters, lining of pockets and kickbacks. Pluto and Scorpio expose foul play and all levels of lack of integrity. There is no place to hide in Pluto/Scorpio territory. The secrets leak out. There are mirrors everywhere we turn.

PRACTICALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OFFERS US A SOLUTION

Moral codes of conduct and ethical frameworks are ideals that we may aspire to, wish for or use as a model to live by, or employ to judge others and ourselves. This is Sagittarius territory. In Scorpio's terrain we simply look at the impact of polarized moralistic thinking on how we create our reality. Unlike Sagittarius, Scorpio is not idealistic. Scorpio is pragmatic. Scorpio knows that morality is "vulnerable to hypocrisy, and Scorpio hates hypocrisy." *(15)

Scorpio has no illusions about the dark side and how we deceive ourselves. Scorpio serves us well by telling us the truth exactly the way it is. The sensitivity of the Scorpio archetype to the dark side is useful and relevant because it "offers a way out of the moral quagmire of empty posturing and sanctimony, not to mention outright lies and deceit. Distinctions between 'good and evil' are certainly not erased and may occasionally be highlighted in Scorpionic consciousness, but here the gates between those contrasting fields of moral judgment are flung wide open. .. Scorpio ferrets out the hidden truth that apparent good often contains seeds of evil, and gross evil may at times spark profound goodness." *(16)

Scorpio is the practical and emotional application of Libra's neutral mind. Libra must learn to be neutral to help compensate for its naiveté. Libra doesn't quite have the guts to face what Scorpio embraces. However, without the neutral mind, Scorpio's heightened psychic and emotional sensitivity can be a trap instead of a gift.

Scorpio sees and accepts things exactly the way they are and is neither shocked nor surprised by human behavior. The Scorpionic lens does not view reality from the perspective of right or wrong. In a pure observational mode, it understands how polarities and extremes are not separate and in fact often morph into each other. Scorpio's nonjudgmental, amoral view is one of its strengths.

Scorpio does not base its action on moral principles or judgments. Scorpio operates from the ethic of effectiveness. "Scorpio wants to gather power, conserve and concentrate it, then use that intensified power to maximum effect. Morality has nothing to do with it." *(17)

PLUTO EXPOSES GRADUAL CORRUPTION

We have just begun to witness the results of the penetrating probing of Pluto in Sagittarius. The next month of concentrated Scorpio energy will uncover more of humanity's dark side - corruption, moral authority betrayed, falls from grace and public disgrace.

Public scandals grab our attention, partly because we are relieved that those violating pubic trust finally get caught. But there is another reason and it has to do with denial and projection. We are relieved that we did not get caught, that our silent participation in collective corruption is not exposed.

Most of those who eventually get caught do not start out as intentional criminals or planning to be thieves of public coffers. They gradually allow themselves to be corrupted by the temptations of money, sex and power. The moral breakdown of a government, corporation or society is a collective affair. Many people contribute through their passiveness and denial mode of existence, finding it more comfortable to be not counted than to participate. We contribute to collective corruption through subtle non-action and "invisible loss of integrity." *(18) We remain silent not to displease others or endanger our position. We let our need for security, social approval, wish to please and gain influence serve as rationalizations to cover up our lack of courage.

Pluto exposes the collective responsibility for society's dark side. Pluto shows us how our individual psyche is related to group dynamics. Like an insidious, "invisible radioactivity that slowly poisons," our fear, anger, hatred, intolerance, good and bad moralistic thinking gradually poison our emotional environment. Like a psychic "Geiger counter, Scorpio is especially sensitized to these poisons." *(19)

Imaginary threats are created in our subconscious from "fear and hatred of the other because of what we deny in ourselves." *(20) "Pogo - We have met the enemy and he is us."

TRANSFORMING THE DARK SIDE THROUGH ACCEPTANCE

Scorpio's sensitivity to the dark side does not invite us to succumb to or to indiscriminately play out our primal urges. It simply lets us know that they are there and that we are at choice as to how to use this energy. Scorpio simply informs us that we are capable of anything and have the potential to express everything from utter depravity to the highest states of grace.

Conscious Scorpio does not live in denial, which is possible because of its ability to use its laser-like perception to penetrate to the truth, perceive motivations, accurately reveal, understand and access our true heart's desires. The real question is how do we elevate our consciousness enough so that we can become aware of our own dark side and how we participate creating both dysfunctional personal and collective realities. How can we reach authentic maturity and not "remain in suspended childhood or arrested adolescence, merely posing as adults."? *(21)

Scorpio teaches us that authentic transformation is not easy, never neutral and an on-going cyclical process in which decay and death are an integral part of renewal and rebirth. We have to experience our dark side to get in touch with the energies that make fear, hate and destruction possible. The shift has to take place within ourselves. We are transformed by accepting what is without judgment, viewing our past as part of our empowerment training, and allowing ourselves to reunite with our highest expressions.

SCORPIO'S PARADOX AND LESSON

When we get to Scorpio, we become aware of the fact that we have to figure out some way to process our emotions. We also realize that we usually store our unprocessed emotions in a certain place in our body. As our default receptacle of thoughts that we don't want to feel or even know about, this area of our body becomes our weak point. Two of the most common disposal areas are our shoulder/neck/ upper back and our belly/lower back.

Scorpio is the "fixed" modality of the water signs. The fixed signs - Taurus, Scorpio, Leo and Aquarius - are both the most stable and the most stubborn. The fixed expression of the water element manifests literally and symbolically as "long-accumulated sediment, water trapped by the coldness of ice or the heaviness of mud." *(22) Water in these murky and solidified forms can be moved only with great force and effort. This helps us make sense of Scorpio's qualities of intensity and control.

However, the need to control is the one thing that Scorpio must learn to give up, if it is move forward on its path of self-mastery. As with the other archetypes, the gut focus of the unconscious expression of the sign, makes sense, but it is the Achilles heal that must be transcended. Within the paradox are both the lesson and the means of liberation.

ATTUNING TO NATURAL RHYTHMS AND CYCLES OF NATURE

To achieve self-mastery, Scorpio has to let go of control. Letting go and surrendering to (1) the innate flow of energies within the body, (2) the progressive unfoldment of the soul, (3) the natural cycles of nature and (4) the rhythmic pulse of the universe all are essential for Scorpio to uncover, know and embody the truth.

When we relax our body, we can experience and attune ourselves to the rhythm of our breath through our physical vessel. Our breath is our primal connection with the cycles of our soul, nature and the universe. As we return to the natural rhythm of our breath and our pulse in our body, we awaken to deeper levels of truth. The truth is that all levels of existence unfold in evolutionary cycles. Scorpio's power comes from the ability to tune into natural cycles, to patiently let them unfold and then to respond at the most appropriate time. Scorpio's secret and challenge is to release the need to control the uncontrollable and to give up the equally unproductive tendency to resist inevitable change.

Scorpio has the uncanny ability to attune its primal being with natural and universal energies. When it synchronizes the pulse of its soul with the pulse of the universe, it can participate in the cosmic unfoldment as an astute and highly proficient co-creator. The faculty that was used to try to control can now be employed to focus the mind, to be attentive to shifts of energy and to be aware of the most opportune moment to take action.

Scorpio knows the truth of natural cycles - decay, death, birth, growth, regeneration, decay, etc. It also knows that attuning to the natural flow is the best way to "let Thy will be done," which guarantees the highest outcome of any situation. Scorpio's challenge and power lie in the ability to let go and allow the flow of all levels of cycles starting with the breath.

SCORPIO'S PATH - LETTING GO DEEP WITHIN

Scorpio is able to get in touch with what is stuck and why we can't let go and move on. Scorpio uncovers the deep programs of fear, anger and sadness that block our flow and impede our power. Only visceral emotional letting go, can end the inner torment. Scorpio can go beyond surface appearances and withdraw back to the source and root causes of our destructive habits. Scorpio is in touch with the primal power that alchemically either creates or destructs. This transformative force can neutralize and eliminate all resistance.

The Scorpionic evolutionary dance unfolds through continual "attraction, creation, destruction and regeneration." *(23) This never-ending process can be painful and exhausting for the unconscious ones who do not understand, accept or know how to deal with the active dynamics of transformation. Manic/depressive highs and lows involving uncontrollable passion and raw pain can wreck havoc with an uninitiated psyche that is constantly exposed to the distress of agonizing emotions.

The disquieting and harsh emotional energies that defy rational interpretation lead the unconscious Scorpio into an inner hell from which it seems to have no escape route. Scorpio is however inexorably drawn to both confront and deal with its demons. Scorpio's deep insight is that what we suffer from, we contribute to creating. And herein lies our power to reverse a downward cycle and turn it around. Empowered by the truth of co-creation, Scorpio engages itself in the process of regeneration and rebirth to deliver itself to freedom.

Scorpio represents our initiation into the sacred mysteries of life and evolution. The soaring eagle represents the elevated Scorpio which by freeing itself from the muck of unprocessed emotions is now able to use this liberated energy to fly to great heights. Scorpio's symbology -- the scorpion, the phoenix (rising from the ashes of its own nest turned into a funeral pyre), and the eagle - portray a transformative spiritual quest. Scorpio is committed to a purposeful and transformational journey. Ultimately Scorpio will be redeemed from its fallen earth-bound follies and spiritualized into the heights of self-mastery.

SCORPIO'S MAIN LESSON - LET GO OF CONTROL AND TRUST

Scorpio's main lesson is to learn that real power is not achieved though control and dominance. To learn this lesson, Scorpio must let go, accept things the way they are and work with what is. When we really let go at a visceral level, we discover the rhythm of our body and being. Scorpio's path is not only to experience this deep level of being but to TRUST it.

The path of the Libra is to attune our mind to the Divine channel. Unconscious Libra simply ignores the existence of this neutral channel. Similarly Scorpio's path is to attune our emotional body to our soul channel. The emotions are the communication mechanism of our soul. In our unconscious state we not only ignore the communications of our soul through denial, we block and distort their expression. Whereas our mind needs mental purification, our physical and emotional bodies need emotional purification.

Any form of control blocks the free flow of our emotional energy. Our emotions not only deliver information from our soul, they are a critical part of our manifestation mechanism, and they can be a source of deep satisfaction. Control is counter productive to probing for the truth. We have to give up control and let go to investigate the depths of our being and to get in touch with the flow of our soul. The more we let go, the more treasures we find. The same applies to relationships - any attempts to control or dominate others simply prevents us from knowing another's truth, beauty and gifts.

As we release our stranglehold, we get in touch with natural rhythms and cycles. We find out we can't control the deepest level of our being, others or nature. And we don't want to! Everything and everybody has its own life flow that plays out independent of our interference. We can make our life miserable trying to control or we join the flow and enjoy the seasons as they unfold. Scorpio eventually finds out that following the current of life's river is infinitely easier and more pleasurable than pushing against it.

Scorpio has the innate capacity to know its own energy and blend it with prevailing energies. As we let go of our limiting individual agendas, we can use our acute sensory awareness to notice the play of energies, tap into them and work with, instead of against them. Scorpio teaches us to hold on to the essence of our goal and trust the big river of life. With our higher purpose in place, we can release obsessions over particulars, bypass obstructed routes and be open to the most effective and efficient way of getting to our final destination.

WHY CAN'T WE LET GO? -THE FEAR OF DEATH

Let go. Surrender. Trust. We are all familiar with these concepts, yet we hold on with dear life to things, beliefs, ideas and the past with a tenaciousness of a pit bull. The grip is so tight, we are simply unable to relinquish control. Usually we can't even identify what we are holding on to. But we can't let go of some unidentifiable force that controls our will. The most basic force preventing us from letting go is the fear of death. We may be eternal souls, but we live in human bodies. Our primal instinct is to struggle for survival and to do what it takes to stay alive. When we are not conscious of the fact that our soul will not die when we leave this physical vehicle, we hold on even stronger to our physical reality.

Our primal gut reaction to fight for our life is strengthened by the innumerable ways we are imprinted from the womb on with struggle and "death threats." Our Scorpio experiences lead us through many mental, emotional, and sometimes physical, near-death experiences, where the outcome is a transformational death. A part of us dies so that we can live fuller, freer lives.

One important thing to remember while we are working with ourselves to let go, is that we have to let go at a physical, emotional, cellular level. Letting go, surrendering and trusting are visceral experiences, and require more than mental training. We must cultivate in-the-body experiences where we realize at a core level that something lives no matter what - we will not and cannot die.

The meditation to attune to our natural rhythms outlined below can facilitate the process of letting go. Chanting divine mantras are also powerful tools designed to imprint the truth of our eternal reality in our being.

ACCEPTANCE IS SCORPIO'S MASTER STRATEGY

Acceptance of things exactly the way they are is Scorpio's master strategy. Scorpio knows that acceptance of the present moment is the secret to knowledge. The basic problem with denial is that it breeds ignorance. In denial we are not in touch with the reality of the moment, which prevents us from knowing what to do and how to move forward.

Guilt, shame, grief, regrets, judgment, disappointment, lack of forgiveness and wishful thinking all preclude acceptance and deep connection with the energies of the moment. In non-acceptance we are preoccupied with either the past or the future. Our mind is immersed in dissatisfaction with what we or others have done or with what has happened. Or we are preoccupied with what we wish to happen, with feelings of anticipation, instead of feeling and loving ourselves (mind, body, breath) and our life at this moment. Past or future-directed anger, fear, frustration and hope all temper our emotional energy and cause it to create future moments that are also not to our liking.

Scorpio teaches that we can live a passionate, committed and powerfully creative life only if we connect with things and ourselves exactly the way they are. Scorpio knows that everything changes and evolves. Life unfolds in a beauty so deep and profound that we don't want to miss one exquisite moment. The more we appreciate the wonder of the moment, the more meaning and satisfaction we will experience and co-create.

FROM MANIPULATION TO MEANINGFUL MATURITY

Immature Scorpio likes to provoke a reaction or instigate conflict by taking advantage of others' vulnerabilities. These cheap thrills to demonstrate dominance are destructive and succeed only in annoying and alienating others. Manipulation is a misdirected use of Scorpio's power. Scorpio's tendency to manipulate and use others only fosters stagnation, rigidity and fear of loss within its psyche. The result is that Scorpio feels isolated and insecure.

The more rigid our internal structure, the more we shut off opportunities for interacting with others in meaningful ways. We miss the chance to discover others' value and lose our own feeling of self-worth. Scorpio has both the awareness to perceive hidden talents and the ability to inspire others to access their gifts and live to their full potential. Contributing to others' transformation is transformational for Scorpio as well. Directing its power to helping others enhance their own power makes Scorpio feel worthwhile and valuable and promotes the meaningful connections that Scorpio desires.

Unidentified and unexpressed inner emotional turmoil in the form of anger and impatience can make Scorpio secretive, defensive and vindictive. When Scorpio can get in touch with these hidden motives and agendas within itself, it can contribute to others by sharing and revealing the secrets that help them also transform their lives.

Scorpio's strong survival instinct can make it distrustful, feel emotionally isolated, and prone to engage in battles for power. Although Scorpio thrives on intensity, it ultimately wants to experience serenity and peacefulness within and in relationship this lifetime. Taurus is the polarity that can help Scorpio achieve this balance.

FROM MANIPULATION TO MERGING

Scorpio has a tendency to create roles of control and dependency. Fearing loss of control or being controlled builds walls that make intimacy impossible and result in frustrating isolation for both partners. If Scorpio shuts down and does not participate fully, its relationships can remain stagnant or deadlocked. In either business or intimate relationships, Scorpio can transform stuck situations if it is clear within itself about its motives and intentions. It must also be upfront with others about what needs to be done to transform existing circumstances.

Scorpio has the capacity to engage in deep, intimate and highly rewarding relationships. To participate in mutually beneficial relationships, Scorpio must first give up its need to compete for power. Power struggles not only alienate others, they squander energy by directing the power of desire toward maintaining control. Scorpio has the capacity to share and merge resources with others in order to create powerful business enterprises resulting in significant financial gain. Scorpio can also connect on deep psychic levels, which makes authentic Tantric sexual relationships possible.

Scorpio must learn that manipulating others to demonstrate its power or to create dependencies is counterproductive. To find the depth and intensity in relationships that it seeks, Scorpio must commit to its own purification and emotional growth and promote this dynamic transformation in others. Scorpio seeks the stimulation of change and requires risk and mystery for fulfillment. The only way to experience this radical level of intimacy in relationships is to personally and in partnership be committed to continual renewal, ongoing transformation, sharing of power, and freedom to be totally honest and authentic. A deep dedication to spiritual and emotional liberation is key.

INTIMACY CAN LEAD TO SELF-MASTERY

As Scorpio releases its desire for power over others, it achieves a level of integrity that makes it possible to transform itself as well as others. Scorpio has to feel unrestrained within itself to open up to the powerful connections possible in truly intimate relationships. Scorpio has to feel free to play a defined leadership role to be effective in business relationships Ultimately Scorpio must surrender its personal power to a higher power and trust the transformative nature of authentic partnership in order to co-create relationships that are mutually beneficial and fulfilling.

Scorpio possesses the innate skill to work with creative sexual energies for mutual regeneration and transformation in intimate relationships. *(24) To engage at these profound levels, Scorpio must feel secure enough within itself to confront the inevitable challenges and to undergo profound levels of purification, death and rebirth. Giving up selfish and secretive motives and risking and trusting true intimacy are required. To release the fear of being dissolved by merging with another, Scorpio must be able to hold on to its own soul identity and divine connection. Fear-based psychic defenses must be replaced by an invulnerable power to retain oneness within, which is pleasurably expanded and strengthened by union with another.

A profound sense of our own individuality as well as a deep respect for the individual uniqueness of others, serves as the basis for intending and creating freedom for oneself and others in relationship. This releases us from expecting or depending upon emotional fulfillment from our partner. It also allows us to commit to and support each other's process of self-purification required for continual regeneration and renewal. Trusting the universe and the potential power of relationship can greatly facilitate our experience of meaning and fulfillment in potently unfolding relationships. In the end, continually surrendering to the unknown transforms our fears into the dynamic realization of self-mastery.

SCORPIO TOUCHSTONES

What I feel is what I project. What I project is what I create.

Experience creates attitudes. Attitudes create feelings. Feelings create projections. Projections create reality.

Everyday I go deep inside to experience profound peace and strength. Today I create an experience and attitude of trusting and surrendering to the Infinite. My projection is covered by surrendering to and trusting the highest good for all.

I may see the worst, but I always trust the highest good. I know and accept that everything changes. I release the tendency to get stuck and choose to move on with the evolutionary flow. I let natural forces and the Universe carry me across the deep ocean of the unknown.

I live by continuously surrendering/dying to the unknown.

MEDITATION TO ATTUNE TO OUR NATURAL RHYTHMS

Let go and surrender - sounds like a great idea. The question is - How is it possible to let go and surrender to the unknown? The reality is that the human psyche will not let go unless it has an experience of what it is surrendering to. A belief, a good idea, even the truth are not sufficient to convince our body to let go of control. We can nurture the possibility of letting go by getting in touch with the innate flow of energies within our body. We can begin by attuning to the cycle of our own breath.

Let go, allow the flow of the breath in your body. Note where the breath and the energy stop and start.

Do a kundalini yoga exercise for 1-2 minutes, for example, spinal flex. Then be with your breath in your body. Be with the experience of the breath slowing down and eventually coming back to a stable rhythm.

Notice the relationship between the rhythm of your breath and the state of relaxation or stress in your body. When we are able to relax our body, we can experience and attune ourselves to deeper levels of the rhythm of our breath through our physical vessel.

For 3 to 5 minutes, consciously slow your breath down to 4 or less complete cycles per minute. Then be with your breath as it breathes through your body. Be very attentive and note the difference between consciously controlling the breath and simply being with it as it breathes. This is the difference between control and letting go.

Our breath is our primal connection with the cycles of our soul, nature and the universe. As we return to the natural rhythm of our breath and the pulse in our body, we awaken to deeper levels of connection with our own truth.

This exercise (adding your own personal variations) can be used between the exercises of any Kundalini yoga set. Be sure to be especially attentive to letting go and surrendering at the end of the set and after any mantra or breathing meditation.

The goals of this exercise are to

(1) to release the need to control the breath
(2) to surrender to the natural cycle of the breath
(3) to experience that there is a natural rhythm within yourself that you can trust
(4) to experience that you will not die if you release control of your breath
(5) to monitor your resistance, to allow it, to feel how it feels in your body, and through acceptance feel your body let go and relax even a little bit
(6) For one precious moment - enjoy letting go and relaxing in your own body.

MANTRAS ELEVATE OUR ATTITUDE

The recitation and chanting of mantras change our attitude, perspective and beliefs. Our continual practice eventually creates an experience of the Truth of our undying nature. Chanting or listening to any divine mantra*(25) will send a message to our body that it is safe for us to relax, let go and surrender to the unknown. Mantras nurture our emotional body so that we feel safe. Mantras create alignment with universal forces. I remember Yogi Bhajan telling us that the universe is set up for us to win. We just have to be willing to win. Surrendering to the unknown is required. Surrendering to our experience of the unknown in our own body makes it possible.

During this time it is very important to keep our vibration high. Practicing Kundalini Yoga and chanting mantras are designed to raise our vibratory frequency and shift our internal space. Pick a mantra or mantras and keep the sound current going within your being.

REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES

Austin, Stephanie, "Taurus Full Moon, Scorpio New Moon," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #129, Oct/Nov, 2006, pp.103-104.
Bogart, Gregory C., Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Dawn Mountain Press, Berkeley, 1994.
Gerhardt, Dana, "Mars," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #129, Oct/Nov, 2006, pp. 19-23.
Herbst, Bill, "In Defense of Scorpio's Dark Side," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #129, Oct/Nov, 2006, pp. 29-34.
Houlding, Deborah, "Scorpio the Scorpion," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #129, Oct/Nov, 2006, pp.37-43.
Spiller, Jan and McCoy, Karen, Spiritual Astrology, Simon and Schuster, 1985 and 1988.
Tarriktar, Tem, "The 2006 Scorpio Overdose," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #129, Oct/Nov, 2006, pp.35-6.
1. Austin, p. 103
2. Austin, p. 103
3. Austin, p. 103
4. Houlding, p. 38
5. Houlding, p. 40
6. Houlding, p. 40
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9. Houlding, p. 38
10. Houlding, p. 38
11. Herbst, p. 32
12. Herbst, p. 30
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15. Herbst, p. 31
16. Herbst, p. 30-1
17. Herbst, p. 30
18. Herbst, p. 31
19. Herbst, p. 31
20. Herbst, p. 34
21. Herbst, p. 34
22. Houlding, p.39
23. Houlding, p. 39
24. Spiller, p. 118
25. There are dozens of beautiful cds available on www.yogatech.com Pick one you like and chant along or listen to it while you drive, work or simply to enjoy.

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Amazon River Flowed Backwards in Ancient Times

2006-10-27T07:40:19Z

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Thu Oct 26, 12:30 PM ET

South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds.
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About 100 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, the continents of South America and Africa broke apart. The fissure created a raised highland along the east coast of South America, which tilted the Amazon's flow, sending water and sediment rushing toward the center of the continent [image].

Over time, South America developed a vertical crease along its middle, a small mountain range called the Purus Arch. The ridge divided the Amazon's flow [image], sending one side of the river eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean and the other side westward toward the still-growing Andes Mountains.

Toward the end of the Cretaceous, the growing Andes became large enough to send the Amazon's water tumbling back toward the Purus Arch. Eventually, sediments eroded from the Andes filled in the Amazon basin between the mountains and the Arch. Water breached the Arch and flowed unobstructed eastward. By this time, the eastern highland had eroded away, and the river's water could empty freely into the Atlantic [image].

The discovery of the Amazon's reverse flow in ancient times was accidental.

Scientists were studying rocks in the river to determine the speed at which sediment is ferried toward the Atlantic when they stumbled upon ancient minerals grains in the central part of South America. A chemical analysis revealed the grains could only have originated in the now-eroded highlands on the eastern part of the continent.

The new finding helps illustrate the transient nature of Earth's surface, the researchers said.

"Although the Amazon seems permanent and unchanging, it has actually gone through three different stages of drainage since the mid-Cretaceous, a short period of time geologically speaking," said study team member Russell Mapes, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Previous studies showed certain segments of the Amazon flowed backward in times past, but the current research, presented today at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia, is the first to reveal a continent-wide shift in the river's movements.

Also involved in the research were UNC geologist Drew Coleman and Brazilian scientists Afonso Nogueira and Angela Maria Leguizamon Vega of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas.

The Amazon is the second longest river in the world, after the Nile River in Egypt. About 4,000 miles long, the Amazon is the equivalent of the distance from New York City to Rome.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061026/sc_space/amazonriverflowedbackwardsinancienttimes

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2012 News Sept/Oct 2006

2006-10-12T11:38:22Z

2012 News September/October 2006

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

Beyond 2012 is now available in USA at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095506080X/2012diregnosi-20

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new10.htm

Adrian Gilbert's End of Time: Gilbert's latest book, The End of Time - The Mayan Prophecies Revisited has been reviewed by DiaGnosis.

The Origin of the "Hunab Ku" Symbol: Many people now associate 2012 with the so-called Hunab Ku symbol. Where did the Hunab Ku symbol come from? Is it really of Maya origin? Did it represent the god Hunab Ku, and was it really associated with the Milky Way?

New on 2012 Books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

Beyond 2012 is now available from Amazon.com

The End of Time - the Mayan Prophecies Revisited by Adrian Gilbert...be sure to read the Diagnosis2012 review.
2013:Oracle: Ancient Keys to the 2012 Awakening by David Carson and Nina Sammons

New 2012 Fiction:
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12 new 2012 titles at Authorhouse.com:

Assignment with Adama
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Beyond the Apocalypse
Pivot Point Terra 1; Before 2012
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New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

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Another new Dutch 2012 site

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Video Trailer for the forthcoming film, 2012: The Oddyssey

16 video clips out of a possible 400 2012-related clips at YouTube and Google video

Trailer for Dutch 2012 film

Another Don Alejandro film - see trailer

New on 2012 Downloads: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/rave.htm

Astrology of 2012 lecture by Benjamin Bernstein

New on 2012 Who's Who: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/who.htm

Many new personalities added...

Other News
Disappearing Buddha boy will return in 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bahadur_Bomjon (thanks to Helen Sewell for the link)

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2012 News

2006-10-12T11:36:25Z

2012 News Jan/Feb 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new9.htm

Mayan Crop Circle Misrepresentations: Remember the "Aussie Bloke" who started a doomsday rumour, claiming to be an Australian scientist? Now we have an Australian scientist (claiming that crop circles encode Mayan doom prophecies), while also pretending to be a deceased Christian-children's-story-writer. Straydog investigates...

More on Dan Burisch: A new website has collected the Dan Burisch info into one place. Burisch connects the Divergent Timeline Paradox, solar radiation, Galactic Centre, pole shifts and "Stargates" to 2012.

Hoagland on 2012: Richard Hoagland is about to give 2 workshops on 2012 at the Conscious Life Expo, (see 2012 Events below) and will also be on the "Countdown to 2012" discussion panel. What is it all about?

The "Pacal Votan" Composite: Lord Pacal of Palenque lived around AD600. Votan was a culture hero who lived many centuries before. They were not the same person, as many people seem to think...

Moon Dream 2012: Daniel O'Brien has had a recurring dream of 2 moons in 2012...

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

Oxlajuj B'ak'tun: Mayan Perspectives on the date December 21 2012

December 21 2012: "the official" website for info on 21122012 : A small collection of articles from a few websites . NB the web address is "mysidebusiness.com" !

Weinholds.org: A new collection of 2012 info

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

The Nostradamus Code: World War III - 2006-2012 by Dr. Michael Rathford. The latest data-mining decoding techniques have been used on a newly discovered Nostradamus manuscript ( found in the Italian National Library of Rome in 2004), to reveal prophecies of Bin laden, 9/11, World War 3 and more prophecies leading up to 2012...

Atlantis Today - The USA Poised for Destruction by Nina Anderson. From the author of the fictional story, "2012, Airborne Prophecy", comes a comparison between the decadent civilization of today, typified by USA, and the stories of Atlantis prior to its fall - a scenario which Anderson thinks will be repeated in 2012.

Earth Changes by Carl Peterson. Evidence for a forthcoming pole shift in 2012

Voices From Legendary Times: We are a Bridge Between Past and Future by Ellen Lloyd. This could be another book connecting the sinking of Atlantis with a similar scenario in 2012...

The World Turned Upside Down by Jo and Kris Van den Driessche. This book was released in January 2006, and it covers "new insights about evolutions in our universe. The most important one right now is the near end of a half precession cycle which will leads to a huge world disaster. In other words: a pole shift is on its way. We expect it around 2012 – 2013".

Psychedelic Information Theory : Shamanism in the Age of Reason by James L. Kent. There is a section n part 4 called "Pushing Through 2012 and Beyond".

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into the End of Civilization by Lawrence E. Joseph. Forthcoming in September 2006

2012: You Have a Choice:Archangelic Answers and Practises for the Quantum Leap by Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa. Forthcoming in February 2006.

New on 2012 Downloads: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/rave.htm

Peril and Prophecy: Nostradamus and Mayan 2012 Warnings, in Light of the Kolbrin Bible by Marshall Masters. An audio introduction to the Kolbrin Bible, highlighting correlations with "the Mayan 2012 prophecies", involving the return of a red comet.
New audio interview with Geoff Stray (webmaster of Diagnosis2012 and author of Beyond 2012 - Catastrophe or Ecstasy).

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

The Conscious Life Expo: Los Angeles, California, USA, February 10-12 2006. Includes COUNTDOWN TO 2012 Free 2.5 Hour Panel discussion with Bettye B. Binder, Dr. Nicholas Begich, Dannion Brinkley, Richard C. Hoagland, Sean David Morton, Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Kaa. Also workshops with Richard Hoagland: 2012: Kokopelli and the End of Time and Changing the “2012 Scenario”— Using Ancient Science...and a talk by Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Kaa: : The Archangelic Revelations of 2012, on their new book (see 2012 Books page).

A presentation Geoff Stray at the UFO Congress, Laughlin, Nevada, USA, Mon Feb 27th 1.30 pm. The Congress lasts a week, from Sunday Feb 26th to Saturday March 4th

Plus more presentations from Geoff Stray in the UK...

2nd Healing Conference in Jericho, Israel. Ton van de Kroon leads this conference, and has also dubbed it a "2012 conference". May 1-6 2006

New on 2012 Video: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/vid.htm

Stargate 2012 - a new DVD by William Henry

Other News:

The "Investigating the Origins of Dreamspell" article has been updated following new claims from Treefrog. See bottom of page: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/dspell.htm

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2006-09-20T03:36:28Z

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Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores on alert as Hurricane Gordon nears

2006-09-19T19:47:16Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060919/sc_afp/portugalweather_060919191900

LISBON (AFP) - Portuguese authorities put all nine islands in the mid-Atlantic Azores archipelago on red alert ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Gordon and its forecast wind gusts of up to 170 kilometres (105 miles) an hour and heavy rains.
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The civil protection service urged the islands's roughly 240,000 residents to stay indoors while the archipelago's regional government ordered schools to be shut and fishermen to stay on land on Wednesday because of the storm.

Gordon was initially expected to weaken to a tropical storm by the time it struck the Azores but it is now expected to hit the islands as a Category 2 hurricane on Tuesday evening.

"A hurricane of this level is already very destructive," national weather office meteorologist Ilda Nova told cable news channel Sic-Noticias.

A Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale of hurricane intensity can cause damage to windows and roofs of buildings, blow down trees and cause flooding in coastal and low-lying areas.

Tropical storms often pass near the Azores islands, located about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) west of mainland Portugal, but a direct hit by a hurricane is rare.

Gordon is forecast to produce waves of up to 12 metres (40 feet) high and is expected to disrupt air and maritime travel.

Emergency services boosted the number personnel who will be on call overnight and advised residents to close doors and windows, clear storm sewers, move livestock to safe areas and lock away farm equipment and garbage bins.

Laura Medeiros, a 33-year-old resident of Sao Miguel, the largest and most populous island in the volcanic archipelago, said she planned to spend the night at the home of her mother-in-law along with her two young children.

"My house is old and isolated," she told the Lusa news agency.

Some residents however said they were not fazed by the approaching storm.

"I think we're strong and are suitably prepared for situations like the one which is coming. If this wasn't the case, I would have left the archipelago a long time ago," 54-year-old Sao Miguel resident Joao Botelho told the agency.

Forecasters said Gordon should eventually be absorbed by a larger weather system which was expected to approach northwestern Portugal and Spain on Thursday bringing with it heavy rain.

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Atlantis

2006-09-16T08:12:43Z

"Either Atlantis is an island in the Atlantic or it's not Atlantis at all." -James Bramwell, Lost Atlantis, 1937

From Andrew Collins (Gateway to Atlantis):
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/interactive/midatlan.htm

Atlantis in the Mid-Atlantic

A very plausible solution to the Atlantis mystery is that Plato's Atlantic Island was located in the Mid-Atlantic and that the island chain known as the Azores are its surviving remnants. This cluster of nine main islands is located amid a chain of underwater mountains that rise to heights in excess of 9000 metres. They form part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which defines the division between tectonic plates, aligned approximately north-south beneath the ocean floor for some 17,600 kilometres. It is the tips of the very highest of these subterranean mountains that protrude from the ocean floor as the principal islands of the Azores, which are themselves endowed with sizeable mountains that soar to a height in excess of 2100 metres.

Perhaps the most important writer to propose that the Azores were remnants of an Atlantean island continent was Ignatius Donnelly, author of the seminal classic Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, first published in 1882. This American congressman set down the foundations for the thousands of books and articles that have been written on the subject of Atlantis over the past 120 years. Although Donnelly's book has seen countless reprints, much of what he had to say about Atlantis being an antediluvial motherland for the diffusion of civilisation on both sides of the Atlantic has since been proved incorrect.

Despite this drawback, Donnelly's original thesis of a central Atlantean landmass has been perpetuated by a number of well-respected scholars of the Atlantis mystery. They include Russian academic Nikolai Zhirov. In the 1960s he wrote a series of papers on the subject, as well as a definitive book entitled Atlantis - Atlantology: Basic Problems, published in 1970. Like Donnelly, he argued that the former Atlantean landmass lay in the vicinity of the Azores and that, before it sank without trace, it acted as a land-bridge for the migration of flora and fauna between Africa and the Americas.

Christian O'Brien, a retired industrial geologist, archaeologist and historical writer, has also tackled the concept of a mid-Atlantic continent having once existed in the vicinity of the Azores. In his 1997 book The Shining Ones - co-authored with his wife Barbara Joy - he proposed that the Azorean landmass, as he sees it, suffered immense cataclysms and eventually sank into the earth's liquid magma, leaving only the Azores as hard evidence of its former existence. The discovery of six fields of hot springs in the vicinity of the Azores is, he postulates, firm evidence of this hypothesis.

During underwater explorations off the island of São Miguel, the largest island in the Azores group, in 1971 Christian O'Brien found clear evidence of an underwater river bed filled with water-worn boulders. By applying detailed contouring methods to hydrographic charts, the O'Briens discerned that rivers draining off the southern slopes of São Miguel once converged together in a huge valley, now situated some 64 kilometres out from the present coastline. Other islands in the Azores group have yielded similar hydrographic anomalies, and in one case the O'Briens even traced a series of river valleys which extended for a distance of 288 kilometres before converging together in a much larger river basin.

With a knowledge of ancient river systems, the O'Briens were able to reconstruct a land profile which revealed an Azorean landmass 'about the size and shape of Spain', with high mountain ranges rising over 3655 metres above sea-level, as well as impressive rivers that run 'in curving valley systems'. Furthermore, they have pointed out that:

In the southeast, a feature which we have called 'The Great Plain' covered an area in excess of 3500 square miles [9065 square kilometres], and was watered by a river comparable in size to the River Thames in England. It has, as we shall see, points in common with a great plain described by Plato in his Critias, as being a feature of the island of Atlantis.

The conclusion drawn from these findings is that the Azores once formed part of a much greater landmass which sank beneath the waves and is now situated 'many thousands of feet' below the current sea-level. To obtain a more substantial insight into this fascinating subject, the O'Briens propose that a scientific team take a series of core samples from the proposed sites of their river channels. They confidently predict that these will show not only evidence of ancient river beds, but also of the freshwater flora and fauna which once thrived on the former Azorean landmass.

These are fascinating insights into the protohistory of the Azores group. Yet there are fundamental problems in accepting the theory of a former Azorean landmass. It is now known, for instance, that the volcanic mountains which constitute the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are of relatively recent composition. They are like age-old geological scars on a gaping wound that never properly heals. The north-south orientated tectonic plates produce an upward flow of magma which constantly creates new underwater mountain systems that are unlikely to have formed part of a geological landmass in the manner described.

In addition to these problems, we must also acknowledge that there is now wide-scale acceptance of the so-called continental drift theory, first proposed in 1915 by the German meteorologist Arthur Wegener. In simple terms, this asserts that many millions of years ago the American and African landmasses were joined together, yet ever since they have been slowly moving apart. Just by making paper cutouts of the different continents and slotting them together we can see they fit snugly, suggesting that the continental drift theory is real. Furthermore, the fact that the American and African continents were once joined together explains much of the flora and fauna they share.

More damning is the fact that when the first Portuguese navigators reached the Azorean islands in 1427, they found them devoid not only of human life but also of any fauna. Even though some evidence has emerged to imply that in the third century BC Carthaginian vessels from North Africa reached Corvo, the westernmost of the Azorean islands, no archaeology has come to light to suggest that the archipelago ever supported an indigenous culture.

Even if the O'Briens' proposals regarding prehistoric river beds, located off the coast of São Miguel, do prove to be correct it seems unlikely that Plato's Atlantis is the memory of a high culture which once thrived on any proposed Azorean landmass. No evidence of an indigenous culture has ever come to light on any of the islands and there is no reason to assume that Plato's Atlantis account alludes to a landmass of this sort. Even though he did state that Atlantis was the size of Libya (North Africa) and Asia combined, it can be argued that this did not relate to the physical size of the island but to the extent of the dominion held by the kings of Atlantis. This can be determined from the Critias, where Plato refers specifically to a much smaller, east-west orientated landmass that cannot have been any more than 600 kilometres in width (see the entry for the Americas).

Donnelly, Ignatius, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, 1882, Harper, New York/London, 1902
Muck, Otto, The Secret of Atlantis, 1976, Collins, London, 1978
O'Brien, Christian & Barbara Joy O'Brien, The Shining Ones, Dianthus Publishing, Kemble, Cirencester, Glos., 1997
Zhirov, N. F., Atlantis - Atlantology: Basic Problems, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970

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Wheres this rainbow bridge?

2006-09-16T08:00:08Z

I need a new one.....

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2012 News Jun/Jul/Aug 2006

2006-08-10T10:26:08Z

2012 News Jun/Jul/Aug 2006

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

IMPORTANT: SINCE THE ADDRESS BOOK FOR 2012 NEWS IS INACCESSIBLE, IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE IT IN YOUR MAILBOX AUTOMATICALLY, PLEASE JOIN THE 2012 NEWS GROUP HERE and choose to receive emails: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/2012news/

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new9.htm

Reviews Galore!

... and 30 New 2012 books in various languages...

* Predictions of 2006 and 2012 Received in Meditative State
* The Tortuguero Prophecy: Just after the previous update, it emerged into the public domain that there is a monument from the Classic era of the Maya that shows the end-date of the 13-baktun cycle in December 2012 and is accompanied by a prophecy that supports previous conclusions on this site concerning the Chilam Balam prophecies. This is an important development since it should silence all those who say that the end of the 13-baktun cycle would have been of no significance to the Maya, or that the cycle actually had 20 baktuns and will not end for hundreds of years, or that it was too far into the future for them to have been interested, or that the prophecies were all distorted by Christian ideas. This is the only surviving prophecy of 2012 to be discovered so far, apart from the distorted Chilam Balam prophecies. Read the brand new translation of the inscription...
* 2012- The Return of Quetzalcoatl - A DiaGnosis Review: Daniel Pinchbecks first book, Breaking Open the Head, about the authors travels around the world, meeting shamans and sampling their sacred hallucinogenic medicines, was widely acclaimed. Thus his next book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was awaited impatiently by many, and being published by Penguin, had the advantage of pre-sales hype, and pre-orders awaiting its release. Dire Gnosis reviews Pinchbeck's latest offering and offers him right of reply...
* "Jaguar Prophet of Our Time" Sinks His Teeth In: Swedish biologist Carl Calleman thought Diagnosis2012 was ignoring him, and started circulating rumours that the site prefers to consider catastrophe theories than ones based around an evolution of consciousness. Calleman's theory was not discussed here originally because I was just about to post a review of his book when Diagnosis2012 hosted the Jenkins/Calleman debate. I held off with the review to retain impartiality, so that the debate could proceed without any outside influence, but Calleman is right - now is the time to review his theory, which has become so well circulated that some are now calling it "the Mayan calendar". So here is the "Calleman Solution" - the Dire Gnosis review of Calleman's first book, Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time, The Mayan Calendar.
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2012 and the Harvest of the End Times (Review): Does this book live up to the hype or is it just an insult to the intelligence?
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2012-Year of the Apocalypse - A DiaGnosis Review: Is this worth reading?
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Berringer's Ancient Gods and 2012 - Another DiaGnosis Review: Chariots of the Gods plus a 2012 angle.
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NASA Predicts Massive Solar Storm in 2012: Several space scientists have recently agreed that we are due for solar storms culminating in 2012 with likely damage to satellites and electric grid systems.

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

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How To Survive 2012 - Patrick Geryls new website
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The 2012 Agenda: Brad Bartholemews response to reading Beyond 2012 and the articles on Crop Circle Connector by C. Le wis, the Australian Scientist, plus Geoff Strays articles about the so-called Mayan crop formations of 2004 and 2005. Brad considers Russian discoveries about DNA and what this may mean for 2012.

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

THE 2012 BOOKS PAGE HAS BEEN RE-DESIGNED WITH EASY-FIND CATEGORIES!

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The 100th Human by Chris Fenwick: "In this novel, Chris Fenwick successfully explains such complex scientific theories as critical mass, zero point, wave functions and punctuated equilibrium, making them accessible and even important to our daily lives."
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Oblivion 2012: Book I - Mistress of the Komodo Dragons by Susan MV Baker: "
Raven-haired and eccentric rock star Tara Morgan just played her last gig. On a morning in March, 2012, she wakes stranded solo in her dome in the New Jersey suburbs, shocked that she has alone has survived the scenario of global destruction that lies outside her crystal walls..."
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Event 2012: Yet another book about raising the Titanic in 2012 (- three books altogether, by different authors) Titanic 2012 and deep banks - all about Titanic & 2012
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Escape to Earth by Lawrence Johnson: Crop circles, aliens, pyramids, Maya and the end of the world in 2012...
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Through the Eyes of the Phoenix by Odysseus: A satire set in 2011-2012, an underground music collective fights the New World Order.
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Through the Eyes of the Jaguar by C. Charles Coyle: "A gripping race to save the world in 2012 via shamanic journeying into XibalbaÖ"
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The Chaos Point by Ervin Laszlo: Laszlo's analysis of graphs and trends indicates that we have 6-7 years before the ecological and economical "tipping point" or Chaos Point, beyond which the world will change...Laszlo notes the synchronistic end of the Maya 13-baktun cycle in 2012 at this time...
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End of Time 21. 12. 2012 - New online 2012 book by Daniel Srsa who wrote Prophets Manual, which was practically impossible to read...this one's in small electronic print so its harder still...

TWELVE 2012 Books at Lulu.com:

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Fear Kindness Love / Earth Ascending 2012 by Alexander Kiy: This novel is essentially a primer for how planet Earth is going to transform Herself over the next few years, ...The scope of this novel's story includes: 2012 related discussions...
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The Storms Of Armageddon by Nickolaus Pacione: A dar
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CITIZENS OF LIGHT - SEERS OF ALL THINGS by Mr Robert Winston Burnett: They're real and with us as Celestial Intelligent Creation (CIC). ...Are we ready, preparing for major changes for all life towards the year 2012?
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OPERATION RESCUE by Mr Robert Winston Burnett:
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BIGGER THAN BULLIES by Mr Robert Winston Burnett:
* Arrival of Blue Flame Indigo Children on earth as...divine links arriving en-mass on Earth from 1987 (25 year period.. 2012)

* The X-Brief by Estanislao Carter: Our most ancient civilization are the Sumerians... and surprisingly they talk about our future. Our very, very near future.

* Downfall by Chris Keogh-Ly : 2012 - London has vanished from the face of the Earth. Two hundred years later a plan is hatched to find it and only one man can get them there.

The Return of the Pleiadians by Richard Brown:
* Itís 2012. The world is crumbling. Governments worldwide have collapsed...

The Handmaidens of Anarchy
* by Richard Brown:... the Pleiadians are preoccupied by their own problems with the Orions. The local born-again Christians turn to blood thirsty terrorism...

Synetica 2012 by Patrice Vassy:
* Script for the end of a world.

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The Grass is Green by Michael Soltys:
Arthur Gray is confused. Arthur Gray is lost....

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Late Book News: Burak Eldems next book is out - the sequel to 2012: Rendez-vous With Marduk - Fraternis - Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood

New on Other 2012 Links & Languages: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

2012 Books:

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Synetica 2012 by Patrice Vassy
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The light family. Theori es for the Coming Years Until 2012 by Barbara Marciniak
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Don Eric und die Maya. 23. Dezember 2012. Werden die G^tter wiederkommen? by Mario Krygier and Jens Rohark
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2012: The Coming Time Turn and the Golden Age. Prophetic visions to the present and future by Tibor Zelikovics
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Turn of an era 2012. The calendar and the prophecies of the Mayas. At present in short form as updates to "the coming turn of an era..." by Tibor Zelikovics free of charge available from Tibor
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The Next Point 2012 by Noah Jacobsen
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Nearer than you think! It and 2012 by Nick Armstrong
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Antaris. One day on earth in the year 2012 by Robert Kendel Pseud
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Developments for a new millenium. Timeship Earth - the time until 2012 of the Maya calendar. Cropcircles - gate into the 4th Dimension. The opening... 11/9/2001 and further consequences By Wolfgang Weidergut
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Japanese: Prophecy to Earth -2012 Year of Impact by Mori Kisida

New on 2012 Downloads:

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* DVD: Dialogues on Prophecy and the End of Time: Jonathan Zap and John Major Jenkins recorded August, 2004 by Lost Arts Media. Two hours.
* DVD: Looking Toward the Event Horizon: Jonathan Zap, interviewed by John Major Jenkins
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CD: The 2012 Show: A musical show that recently travelled around the UK. If you missed it, the CD is still available

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

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WHAT COMES AFTER 2012? 2013 Oracle: Transitioning to the New Humanity with David Carson Vancouver - August 4-6, 2006
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Questing Conference: Sat 28th October 9.30 AM - 6 PM, London NW1: 2012 talk by Geoff Stray plus talks by Andrew Collins, LynnPicknett & Clive Prince, John Reid, Andrew Murphy, Greg Little

New on 2012 Video: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/vid.htm

New Video from Sharron Rose, due out soon:

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David Carsons New Oracle Cards: 2013 Oracle: Transitioning to the New Humanity

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Apocalypto film trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/
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Joel Keene's new short story ñ commencing countdown http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=10788
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Ellen LLoyd's article, Stargate of the Alien Gods: http://www.ufoarea.com/lloyd_stargate_gods.html
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Robbie Williams expects an alien invasion in 2012: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Robbie-Williams-to-Start-His-Own-Religion-23907.shtml (thanks to Michael Brundel)

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from 2012 tribe

2006-07-22T11:25:06Z

Here are some New Species found:

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A New Catfish >>>>>> www.sciencedaily.com/release...2457.htm

New Primate (monkey) Species >>>>> www.theonion.com/content/node/31017 (unfortunately they think it is good to eat? sheesh....

10 new species of freshwater fish discovered by scientists studying the Caura River Basin >>>>> www.erdingtonaquatics.com/newsp...s.html

27 Unknown Creatures Found in California Caves >>>>> www.livescience.com/animalwo...ters.html

Two new lemur species discovered >>>>> www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele...80205.php

'New mammal' seen in Borneo woods >>>>>> news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4501152.stm

New brown shark species discovered >>>>> www.boingboing.net/2006/03/...spec.html

New animal species found in Mexico >>>>> www.nisperal.org/news.html

New Whale Species Announced by Japanese Scientists >>>>> news.nationalgeographic.com/news....html

New monkey species discovered in Africa >>>>> www.newscientist.com/article.ns

New Monkey Species Found in India >>>>> www.phschool.com/science/p...11505.html

Scientists discover new species in Arctic Ocean Alaska >>>>> www.sfos.uaf.edu/news/story/

New dolphin species discovered in coastal waters and major rivers of Asia and in northern Australia >>>>> media.jcu.edu.au/story.cfm

Sargasso Genome Study Finds 1,800 New Species >>>>> www.planetark.com/dailynews.../story.htm

New invertebrate species found in Israel >>>>> news.webindia123.com/news/Ar...453.html

Scientists have described a new species of annual killifish from southern Brazil >>>>> www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pf...php

Record discovery of new species expected >>>>> www.happynews.com/news/new-...pected.htm

Two new monkey species discovered in Brazil >>>>> www.innovations-report.com/html....html

New species found in the Arctic Ocean - Canada and Alaska >>>>>www.newstarget.com/z010611.html

A new bat species in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park >>>>> www.int.iol.co.za/index.php

A new member of the salmon family has been discovered in Russia >>>>> www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pf...php

A new bird species has been discovered on a remote island in the northern Philippines >>>>> www.birdlife.org/news/pr/2..._rail.html

New assassin spider species found >>>>> dsc.discovery.com/news/brie...r_ani.html

Brazilian Scientists Discover Nine New Spider Species>>>>> www.terradaily.com/news/lif...zzzh.html

Brazil - New Bird Species Discovered - The scientists said its song was unlike any they had heard before >>>>> www.cbsnews.com/stories/19...n7979.shtml

New species in Vietnam >>>>> coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/species.html

World's Smallest Deer Species Discovered By Wildlife Conservation Society - Southeast Asia >>>>> www.wildlifenews.co.uk/articl...eer.htm

New plant species found in India >>>>> www.hindu.com/2005/05/11/...03830500.htm

Laos (Asia) said to harbor many new frog species >>>>> www.sciencedaily.com/upi/

New owl species discovered in Brazil >>>>> www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele...61303.php

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AuraQuake presents "Jitter Glow"

2006-07-17T16:27:30Z

"Jitter Glow"
Relentless psychedelic adventure that will barbecue your brain well done. auraquake records second compilation is here!

Artist: V/A
Title: Jitter Glow
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Release: Summer 2006
Catalog: AQCD003

Tracklist:
1 Parus - X-Bilet
2 Atriohm - Spell Drops
3 Penta - Turning 30
4 Atriohm vs. Encephalopaticys - Among the Stars
5 Ghreg on Earth - Twilight Zeitgeist
6 Penta - Rio
7 Atriohm - Rings of Fairy
8 Ocelot vs. Alien Mental vs.Quasar vs.Dylalien vs.Entropy vs. Dejan vs.Mubali - Wild Wild West
9 Parus - Groza

Jitter Glow, the third release from AuraQuake Records, is destined to inspire many dancefloors this year and beyond. Consisting of ridiculously psychedelic and driving tracks, this compilation is a treat for everyone who loves experimental night trance music. Three compositions from Macedonian duo Atriohm including one versus track with Encephalopaticys, two tracks from Penta, one mega-collaboration from Ocelot vs. Mubali vs. Alien Mental vs. Entropy vs. Dejan vs.... and tracks from Parus and GOE create a hysterical compote of noises, voices, sharp kick drums and hurricane basslines to quench your thirst for esoteric wickedness!!!

Distributed by Arabesque Distribution.
http://www.arab.co.uk info@arab.co.uk
http://www.auraquake.com

AuraQuake Records was established by Nikita Tselovalnikov and Catia Leitao as a platform to release the next generation of psychedelic music. The first two titles were - the second album by Penta "Funraiser" and a compilation of new talents from San Francisco "Seismic Mood". Presenting "Jitter Glow" compilation, its third release, AuraQuake continues to innovate with its own take on the psychedelic story.

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10 Synthectic cosmetic ingredients to avoid

2006-07-06T14:33:37Z

10 SYNTHETIC COSMETIC INGREDIENTS TO AVOID

By Aubrey Hampton

If you want natural products, you have to be willing to search them out. Learn to read labels, and refuse to settle for half-natural hair and skin care. Below I've listed and described the "ten most wanted"—the ten chemicals I most want to see off the labels of so-called natural hair and skin care products.

1. Methyl, Propyl, Butyl and Ethyl Paraben — Used as inhibitors of microbial growth and to extend shelf life of products. Have caused many allergic reactions and skin rashes. Studies have shown that they are weakly estrogenic and can be absorbed by the body through the skin. Widely used even though they are known to be toxic.

2. Diethanolamine (DEA), Triethanolamine (TEA) — Often used in cosmetics as emulsifiers and/or foaming agents. They can cause allergic reactions, eye irritation and dryness of hair and skin. DEA and TEA are "amines" (ammonia compounds) and can form cancer-causing nitrosamines when they come in contact with nitrates. Toxic if absorbed into the body over a long period of time.

3. Diazolidinyl Urea, Imidazolidinyl Urea — These are widely used preservatives. The American Academy of Dermatology has found them to be a primary cause of contact dermatitis. Two trade names for these chemicals are Germall II and Germall 115. Neither of the Germall chemicals contains a good antifungal agent, and they must be combined with other preservatives. Both these chemicals release formaldehyde, which can be toxic.

4. Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate — A cheap, harsh detergent used in shampoos for its cleansing and foam-building properties. Often derived from petroleum, it is frequently disguised in pseudo-natural cosmetics with the phrase "comes from coconuts." It causes eye irritation, scalp scurf similar to dandruff, skin rashes and other allergic reactions.

5. Petrolatum — Also known as petroleum jelly, this mineral oil derivative is used for its emollient properties in cosmetics. It has no nutrient value for the skin and can interfere with the body's own natural moisturizing mechanism, leading to dryness and chapping. It often creates the very conditions it claims to alleviate. Manufacturers use petrolatum because it is unbelievably cheap.

6. Propylene Glycol — Ideally this is a vegetable glycerin mixed with grain alcohol, both of which are natural. Usually it is a synthetic petrochemical mix used as a humectant. It has been known to cause allergic reactions, hives and eczema. When you see PEG (polyethylene glycol) or PPG (polypropylene glycol) on labels, beware—these are related synthetics.

7. PVP/VA Copolymer — A petroleum-derived chemical used in hairsprays, styling aids and other cosmetics. It can be considered toxic, since inhaled particles can damage the lungs of sensitive persons.

8. Stearalkonium Chloride — A quaternary ammonium compound used in hair conditioners and creams. Developed by the fabric industry as a fabric softener, it is a lot cheaper and easier to use in hair conditioning formulas than proteins or herbals, which are beneficial to the hair. Causes allergic reactions. Toxic.

9. Synthetic Colors — Used to make cosmetics "pretty," synthetic colors, along with synthetic hair dyes, should be avoided at all costs. They will be labeled as FD&C or D&C, followed by a color and a number. Example: FD&C Red No. 6 / D&C Green No. 6. Many synthetic colors can be carcinogenic. If a cosmetic contains them, don't use it.

10. Synthetic Fragrances — The synthetic fragrances used in cosmetics can have as many as 200 ingredients. There is no way to know what the chemicals are, since on the label it will simply read "fragrance." Some problems caused by these chemicals include headaches, dizziness, rash, hyperpigmentation, violent coughing, vomiting, skin irritation—the list goes on. Advice: Don't buy a cosmetic that has the word "fragrance" on the ingredients label.

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Nobel Laurate & LSD Advocate Kary Mullis on Drug Policy

2006-05-04T22:45:14Z

Geneticist Kary Mullis has attributed his Nobel Prize winning discovery of the PCR chain-reaction to his experiences visualizing his molecular concepts with the aid of LSD. Here are notes from Kary's lecture on drug policy in Europe.

THE BECKLEY FOUNDATION AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY
The speakers include Dr. Kary Mullis (Nobel Laureate for Chemistry), Professor Leslie Iversen (Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and at the University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Regan (Department of Pharmacology, University College Dublin), Simon Jenkins (Former Editor of The Times), and Professor Gustav Born (William Harvey Research Institute, London). The discussion was chaired by Professor Colin Blakemore (Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford).

The Role of Drugs in Society
By Kary Mullis,
Nobel Prize winning geneticist.
Inventor of the Polymerase chain-reaction (PCR) used in all modern DNA testing.

• Kary Mullis has taken LSD for recreational and intellectual purposes
and his interest lies in the effect of psychoactive drugs on the mind.

• Psychoactive drugs can be used as tools,
their transient effects on the brain enabling occasional users to acquire
a greater understanding of the capabilities of their minds.

• Experimentation can increase awareness of the larger picture,
thereby making users feel more humble about their role,
in turn encouraging a more liberal and tolerant attitude.

• As long as psychoactive drugs are taken in a controlled environment,
e.g. users not operating machinery or having access to weapons, there is little danger and
no reason why these drugs should not be freely available.

• Drugs tend to be much more expensive to buy than to produce (especially cocaine and heroin)
ensuring that criminal organisations that control the supply of these substances make massive profits.

• Sales of illegal drugs fund dangerous militant groups, which are able to arm themselves
using the money raised from the trade, which is estimated globally to be in excess of $500 billion a year.

• The high sales prices in consumer countries determined by an illegal supply,
lead to increased crime levels because people are forced to steal to support habits formed by using addictive drugs.

• Government prohibition does not prevent sales of recreational drugs but the laws have massive effects
both internally in the consumer countries and on the poorer manufacturing countries of the world.

• The social problems caused by prohibition necessitate changes in legislation.
• Kary Mullis recommends that all drug laws be abolished; accepting that due to years of prohibition
there will be an initial period of chaos, which will ultimately be superseded by a significant improvement over the present situation.

• If drugs were legalised, the number of users and total intake is unlikely to change drastically,
still only a small percentage of the population choosing to use them.

• Historically, society tolerated drugs with few problems arising, e.g. opium was very popular in the 19th century and many great works of literature were inspired by its effects. When it became illegal, making it expensive to buy and promoting cheaper and quicker methods of delivery, (e.g. intravenous use of
heroin), the problems that we associate now with drug use and addiction emerged.

Questions & Answers

What is wrong with present legislation?

The present Misuse of Drugs Act, created because of the alarm caused to society by the use of recreational drugs and the associated illegal trade, has not resulted in people not using drugs. An unwanted side effect of the ban is the creation of a massive crime wave. Large numbers of people are imprisoned for drug-related crimes creating massively overcrowded prisons. On release back into society, these same people receive no support, increasing the likelihood that they will re-offend. Ideally, we would be in a position where members of society do not feel the need to use drugs.

In a society where people do feel this need, should they be allowed to use drugs simply because they have a desired effect?
The large numbers of regular ecstasy users every weekend in Britain indicates the laws restricting their use are ineffective and there is a whole culture that are not deterred by their illegal status.

Is society ready for the unleash of drugs?
Although many of the things we desire are bad for our health, their use is not restricted. There is no drug more dangerous than alcohol, which holds legal status. All drugs, hard or soft, legal or illegal, cause social problems to some degree. A common misperception is that heroin causes very large numbers of fatalities but the figure is minute compared to alcohol. In fact, heroin addicts often have very high tolerance levels and what tends to kill them is the summation of multiple different drugs resulting in death by overdose. The drugs themselves tend not to be the problem but the way that they are dispensed and sold. Cannabis use causes very few social problems and many successful and productive people use cocaine regularly, however the illegal status of these drugs pushes the sales market into the hands of violent criminals.

Are the present social problems relating to the sale of recreational drugs a result of the current Government ban?
Would they still exist even if sales were legalised?
The clients will still be approximately the same, but practice and trade will change through legalisation. Legalisation would mean that people could buy drugs but only through legal sources, removing a major criminal resource and significantly reducing crime levels. In Holland where the sale of marijuana has been legalised, illegal sales still go on, mainly as a result of cannabis production still being illegal. Those making money now are unlikely to give up their markets easily, so black market trade will continue but the profit margins will be significantly reduced. Criminals will move to other illegal sales, e.g. from drugs to tobacco. Drug barons are likely to find alternative means of laundering money, such as the sale of stolen diamonds.

Is it correct to assume that a controlled legal market is easier to maintain than an uncontrolled black market?
When prohibition of alcohol was abolished in the US, gangs initially tried to take over the sale of alcohol and the associated profits but eventually it returned into the hands of the lawmakers. Initially, it would be necessary to provide drugs at a lower market price than illegal dealers by taxing drugs less than nicotine and alcohol are presently. When this has wiped out competition from illegal sources, taxes could start to be increased. It is important to avoid a situation in which the white market coexists with the black market, which could happen if the taxes levied were disproportionate. This presently occurs within the tobacco market with criminal organisations illegally importing massive quantities of cigarettes.

In terms of legislation, is decriminalisation or legalisation preferable?
Legalisation is preferable but drugs should be given moral approbation rather than be endorsed. If certain activities start to cause social problems, the state will have to intervene but many drugs are thought to cause problems simply because they are illegal. If the money presently spent on law enforcement could be ploughed into treatment and education, the health and social problems associated with drug use would be dramatically reduced.

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Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD

2006-05-04T22:35:12Z

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD
when he discovered the secret of life

Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London), August 8, 2004

BY ALUN REES

FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

It was through his membership of Soma that Crick inadvertently became the inspiration for the biggest LSD manufacturing conspiracy-the world has ever seen the multimillion-pound drug factory in a remote farmhouse in Wales that was smashed by the Operation Julie raids of the late Seventies.

Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. The revered scientist had been invited to the Cambridge home of freewheeling American writer David Solomon a friend of hippie LSD guru Timothy Leary who had come to Britain in 1967 on a quest to discover a method for manufacturing pure THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.

It was Crick's presence in Solomon's social circle that attracted a brilliant young biochemist, Richard Kemp, who soon became a convert to the attractions of both cannabis and LSD. Kemp was recruited to the THC project in 1968, but soon afterwards devised the world's first foolproof method of producing cheap, pure LSD. Solomon and Kemp went into business, manufacturing acid in a succession of rented houses before setting up their laboratory in a cottage on a hillside near Tregaron, Carmarthenshire, in 1973. It is estimated that Kemp manufactured drugs worth Pounds 2.5 million an astonishing amount in the Seventies before police stormed the building in 1977 and seized enough pure LSD and its constituent chemicals to make two million LSD 'tabs'.

The arrest and conviction of Solomon, Kemp and a string of co-conspirators dominated the headlines for months. I was covering the case as a reporter at the time and it was then that I met Kemp's close friend, Garrod Harker, whose home had been raided by police but who had not been arrested. Harker told me that Kemp and his girlfriend Christine Bott by then in jail were hippie idealists who were completely uninterested in the money they were making.

They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival and the drugs charity Release.

'They have a philosophy,' Harker told me at the time. 'They believe industrial society will collapse when the oil runs out and that the answer is to change people's mindsets using acid. They believe LSD can help people to see that a return to a natural society based on self-sufficiency is the only way to save themselves.

'Dick Kemp told me he met Francis Crick at Cambridge. Crick had told him that some Cambridge academics used LSD in tiny amounts as a thinking tool, to liberate them from preconceptions and let their genius wander freely to new ideas. Crick told him he had perceived the double-helix shape while on LSD.

'It was clear that Dick Kemp was highly impressed and probably bowled over by what Crick had told him. He told me that if a man like Crick, who had gone to the heart of human existence, had used LSD, then it was worth using. Crick was certainly Dick Kemp's inspiration.' Shortly afterwards I visited Crick at his home, Golden Helix, in Cambridge.

He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. He gave no intimation of surprise. When I had finished, he said: 'Print a word of it and I'll sue.'

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linkalike

2006-05-02T17:12:11Z

here is some frendly and informative links that i would like to share
http://www.spirit-of-yggdrasil.com
http://www.sacred-texts.com
http://www.tortuga.com/
http://www.experiencefestival.com
http://www.fieldwerks.com
http://www.erowid.org/
http://www.pan-portugal.com/
love &light

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Super events :::)))))

2006-04-16T11:18:11Z

April 26-28: New Living Expo in San Francisco, California

This should be a good kickoff to our show year, a vibrant and lively gathering in a beautiful space, with speakers such as Leonard Shlain, Gabriel Cousens, and more, along with many interesting booths and exhibits. Last year's attendance was 12,000 people, so we're all sure to meet with some like minds and renew our connections of support with fellow travelers!

Information at:

www.newlivingexpo.com

*NEW* May 12-14: Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis, California

Held at the UC Davis outdoor quad since 1969, the mission of the Whole Earth Festival is to envision and create a community-driven festival of education, music, and art. The hope for this gathering is to develop a conscious community that will go out into the world after the festival and encourage the values that we hold dear. This festival will be full of good food, a great entertainment lineup, lectures and demonstrations, and companies (like us!) working to support positive change.
Information at:

http://wef.ucdavis.edu/

June 9-11: Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, California

Fun in the Sun! Always a great time, outdoors with good music, good food, and lots to see and do, what else could you want for a nice summer weekend?

Information at:

www.harmonyfestival.com

*NEW* June 23-25: She Shamans & Magic Mamas in Geyserville, California
This one will be really fun! We will be set up and speaking at this conference about women's spirituality and Entheogens and plant-based sacred paths, to be held at a very unique venue in the heart of wine country. I will be speaking about Alchemy and the Voice of Nature, and how Spagyric work, as a plant-based spiritual practice, is the Shamanic aspect of Alchemy. There will be many other visionary and powerful speakers from the worlds of plants and women's wisdom, and I am sure it will be an enlightening weekend for all.
Information at:

www.sheshamans.com

*NEW* November 10-12: Green Festival in San Francisco, California

The premiere event for products, ideas, and networking to support sustainable living at all levels, attended by over 10,000 people last year. Green Festival brings together community, likeminded leaders and businesses in celebration of sustainable economy, ecological balance and social justice.

Information at:

http://www.greenfestivals.org/

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Mother Nature tops Time person of the year list

2005-11-25T00:55:22Z

By Ellen Wulfhorst Mon Nov 14, 6:14 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year" for 2005 may not be a person at all.

Mother Nature topped the unofficial list of nominees at a panel discussion held on Monday by the weekly magazine to debate who will grace the cover of the issue that hits newsstands on December 19.

Time does not prepare or publish a formal list of nominees; instead, its editors make the selection privately after reporting by the staff.

The choice is supposed to remain a secret until December 18, when it will be disclosed on the magazine's Web site, but it does become a parlor game in America to ponder who fits the criteria as "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

Mother Nature -- encompassing natural disasters from the Asian tsunami to Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake -- evokes issues ranging from presidential politics to race to oil to infrastructure and leadership, said NBC news anchor Brian Williams, one of the panelists gathered to debate the annual selection.

"It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system," he said.

Other suggestions included so-called first responders to emergencies; Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of military relief operations after Katrina; Jordanian-born Abu Musab al Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq; U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice; Microsoft Corp. founder
Bill Gates for the money he has donated to fight malaria;
Pope Benedict; and
J.K. Rowling, author of the
Harry Potter books.

The person of the year is not always a person. Time selected "The American Soldier" in 2003, the "Endangered Earth" in 1988 and "The 25 and Under Generation" in 1966.

The tradition grew out of an editorial embarrassment in 1927 when Time failed to put pilot Charles Lindbergh on its cover after his historic solo transatlantic flight. At the end of that year, the editors decided to make him man of the year to remedy the oversight, Time said.

Some selections have been notoriously unpopular with Time readers, such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942 and Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

Time's 2004 Person of the Year was U.S.
President George W. Bush.

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New Tribe: Seven Year Horizon

2005-11-18T20:34:26Z

tribes.tribe.net/7yearscount

2012 is a waning seven years away. What can you do in the next seven years to craft your life to be ready for the world's upheaval?

What do you see for yourself? What will your community look like? How can you manifest what you wan to see?

What state will the world be in? Are you prepared to live in that environment?

Do you have a long term vision for yourself, and what are the steps you can take to get there? How can you help others with their vision?

These are just a few questions to stir up your thoughts and get the discussion going...

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Green Festival SF this weekend

2005-11-04T07:43:19Z

http://www.greenfestivals.com/

The Green Festival is a two-day party with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that is life-affirming and life-restoring. Together we are cultivating a culture of sustainability and social equity that honors our interdependence with all life. Green Festival unites green businesses, social and environmental groups, visionary thinkers and thousands of community members in a lively exchange of ideas, commerce and movement building fun.

Learn: Attend lectures and workshops by thought leaders, business visionaries and community activists shaping the green movement.

Network: Connect with like-minded individuals and organizations who are committed to the possibility of a better world. See Network.Get Involved! Learn about organizations effecting positive and sustainable change in our region, our country, and the around the planet.

Socialize: Have fun interacting with others, for the sheer joy of it. Meet interesting people who share common interests. Spend some time at the food court and listen to local musicians. Parents, find a place to relax in the Family Rest Stop.

Eat Well: Sample delicious, healthy, organic, and sustainable produced food prepared on site. ALL FOODWARE IS BIODEGRADEABLE - COMPOST! WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO BRING YOUR OWN FOODWARE TO THE EVENT.

Greening the Event: We believe in deep sustainability - to achieve intergenerational equity, we must design equity into the present. We try to address all aspects of the event - beginning with our own consciousness and the budgetary process.

Learn how we are creating an eco-commerce model for the Green Festival and our who in the community helps us.

The Green Economy Expo: If you are a green business of any size, this could be the perfect place for you to connect to your target audience. Call 1-877-727-2179 to exhibit your products. See who's Exhibiting in 2005.

Shop at the Green Festival for all of your Holiday Gifts! Purchase goods and services from 300 exhibitors who practice the principles of sustainability, ecology, and social equity. Go shopping online - we've identified online resources for green goods.

Coop America's Green Pages: Check out the original directory of Green Businesses at www.greenpages.org

Endorse the Earth Charter!

LIMITED OFFER: Purchase Green Festival Compost from DC Festival. Be the first to support turning waste into a resource!

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AuraQuake "Seismic Mood" - Penta, Ocelot, Parus, Sector 7G

2005-10-25T00:52:16Z

V.A. Seismic Mood
AuraQuake
AQCD002

Release date: December 2005

1 Parus - Star Pass
2 Penta - Dangerous Game
3 Sector 7G - Exploit
4 Penta - Half Dimensional
5 Ocelot - Trumpeter Swan rmx
6 Parus - Leshiy
7 Penta - Always Noon
8 Sector 7G - X-Mas
9 Parus - Volna

After the release of Penta's second album "Funraiser", our brand-new psytrance label from Silicon Valley and Azores Islands is presenting a compilation of new morning psychedelic sound from San Francisco - “Seismic Mood”. It consists of three new tracks from Penta, written on Azores Islands in the middle of Atlantic Ocean, three tracks from Parus, a project of Russian-born twin brothers Valik and Marik Tarasov, two new tracks from Sector 7G, a creation of Alex Becker and Scott McDonald, and a happy breakfast track from Aaron Peacock, aka Ocelot.

This second release from AuraQuake is setting the ground for the quest to explore different ways of presenting the early morning experience, although it can be enjoyed at any time of the day and night as well. Each track is a combination of melodies and modern sounds and is carefully chosen to create an atmosphere of weird happiness and slight emotional distress with a hint of silliness, so popular in earthshaken California parties and hopefully elsewhere.

The CD is going to be mastered by Lawrence aka Chromatone, insuring the professional sound.

Our distributor for this and future releases is Arabesque Distribution.

You are welcome to check our website www.auraquake.com for samples and more info!

Enjoy :)

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2012 News Sep/Oct 2005

2005-10-24T22:42:58Z

...2012 News July/Aug/Sep/Oct 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

BEYOND 2012, Catastrophe or Ecstasy is available at last!

More info at http://www.vitalsignspublishing.co.uk

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new9.htm

Sikhs and 2012 : What is the origin of the rumoured connection between Sikhs and 2012?

DMT Flashback 2012 : Another report of our internally secreted pineal hallucinogen (though absorbed from an external source) and its revelations about 2012.

Mel Gibson's Next Film: Apocalypto: Currently being filmed in Mexico. Is it about 2012?

India Daily Credibility?: The incredible headlines of India Daily cover every possible and impossible 2012 connection...maybe one of them could be true?

2012 Dimensional Doorway? : The 2012 Group have a story of a 27-day time doorway in 2012, revealed in a dream.

Dowsers Detect 2012 : The story is just emerging...

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

Uppanaki - Mascot for the 2012 Ascension : Jeremy Turner has created a 2012 Mascot:" By the end of the year, this mascot will be available for download as a Microsoft Agent (cartoon office assistant). Hopefully, by the end of 2012, people around the globe will have Uppannaki on their desktop." There is also an explanation, flash animation and forum. Uppanaki is a word developed from upward and Annunnaki.

The Red Letters : "The Red Letters represent a series of twelve letters that were dictated by the Master Kuthumi to the DK Foundation in the United Kingdom in order to aid mankind in its preparation for the upheavals expected between now and the year 2012."

What's So Special About 2012?: An article by Geoff Stray, summarising some of the most fascinating 2012 facts and synchronicities covered in the new book, Beyond 2012

Passover 2012 : Kabbalah (gematria) and the bible code combine to provide a reason for Christians to expect the ascension, when the Bride of Christ (the Church) ascends to meet Jesus, to occur at the end of a 7-year tribulation on Passover 2012 (thanks to Robert Franks for the link)

Jonathan Bethel Interview : Jonathan Bethel, webmaster of Omega Point Institute and 2012Escaton.com was interviewed by R.U. Sirius about psychedelic visions and 2012, and the transcript is available online.

Galactic Centre Blog : Willard Van de Bogart, webmaster of Earthportals,com, He has just started this blog (a blog is a cross between a forum and internet diary),"to encourage disloge on this special time of the ending of the 26,000 precession cycle which the Mayans of course announced at 2012."

Preparing for 2012: Miguel Angel Vergara's seven-stage development programme, with one 10-day workshop being held each year between 2006 and 2012, in the Yucatan area of Mexico.

Old Earth New Earth: Ascension 2011-2012

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

Beyond 2012 - Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray with foreword by John Major Jenkins. What the 2012 researchers say...

Let Your light Shine for 2012 by Sean Bradley.

2012 Gold's History Solves Mankind's Mystery by Mike Brumfield.

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

2012 Talks in the UK in Somerset, Dorset, Surrey and Sussex

New on 2012 Downloads: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/rave.htm

"The Year 2012" - Geoff Stray interviewed by Jim Harold on the Paranormal Podcast

New Shpongle album, Nothing Lasts...But Nothing is Lost, features 3 tracks with Terence McKenna samples.

More New McKenna Material including audio and video at the Terence McKenna bibliography

Echan Deravy Video of the 2 Crosses at Urcos - the one pinpointed by Weidner and Bridges, and another one at the church in the town square. The commentary is in Japanese. The footage continues on to Tipon and the Inca trail, finishing at Machu Pichu. Just click the start button on the right of the website. Echan Deravy is the contactee covered in Whats new item 13, who has written 2 books (in Japanese) concerning 2012 - Merging Point and The Solar Code (see Other 2012 Links page for more details)

New on 2012 Music: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/music.htm

Spaceflight 2012

"2012" by Old Time Relijun

New on Other 2012 Links - Other languages: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

JESUS - He is Coming in 2012 - a book in Greek by Efstathios Theodossis: This book is a result of a research which covered 8 years and it was based on scientific study regarding the fulfilment of biblical prophesies".

Revelations of 2012 : Another Japanese book on 2012, but this time with an accompanying website with 2012 info links.

New on 2012 Discussion Groups: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/disc.htm

Galactic Centre Blog: Willard of Earthportals has created the blog ""to encourage disloge on this special time of the ending of the 26,000 precession cycle which the Mayans of course announced at 2012."

Knights of the Light : Alfred Dominic Borda's group (see Whats New item 9 and 2012 Books page)

Uppanaki forum: forum to discuss the 2012 mascot etc.

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Brazil Declares Amazon River a Disaster Tue Oct 11, 8:39 PM ET

2005-10-12T18:42:15Z

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Authorities declared part of the Amazon River a disaster area after a drought left the levels of parts of the river too low for navigation, officials said Tuesday

The government of the jungle state of Amazonas declared the disaster on Monday, freeing up money, food and medicine to scores of river communities that now can be reached only by air, government spokesman Hiel Levy said by phone.

"All these communities are having difficulty finding supplies. We're working to make sure they don't run out," Levy said by phone from Manaus, 1,660 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.

The level of the Amazon rises and falls regularly, but this year the dry season has been more severe than normal. Officials said the water levels in areas about 35 miles upstream from Manaus have dropped several feet to about five feet, making it hazardous for river boats and difficult for fishing, a key occupation.

"We're worried," Manaquiri Mayor Jair Souto told the Associated Press. "We have about 25,000 people whose basic food is fish. We're a community of fishermen."

Officials said Amazonas Gov. Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga spoke with Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva about the problem and sent workers to dig wells to supply isolated communities with drinking water, which previously was drawn from the river.

Water levels are expected to rise in early November at the start of the rainy season

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_amazon;_ylt=ArQ28WmSOFtSe.AvQE6SGL2s0NUE

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AuraQuake presents: Penta "Funraiser" Tour Brazil 2005

2005-10-05T19:44:43Z

Hello
After the huge summer in Europe and desert parties on U.S.A AuraQuake goes to Brazil once more.

This tour schedulle is:
8/10-Porto Alegre-RS
12/10-Socorro-SP
13/10-Sao Paulo-SP
14/10-Rio Janeiro-RJ
15/10-Porto Belo-SC
21/10-Betim-MG
22/10-Goiania-GO

We are going to have some limited copies of the album for sale at these partys so if you want one talk to us before or after the performance.

See you there

C

www.auraquake.com
www.pentafiles.com

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2012 News July/August 2005

2005-08-26T14:49:02Z

2012 News July/August 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

The Diagnosis2012 computers have been subjected to virus attack and both the hard drives have been wiped, so the planned update will have to be suspended until recovery is completed, but…

The Long-Awaited Book is Now Available…

“Beyond 2012, Catastrophe or Ecstasy”

From Spiritual Alchemy
available at a discount price...full details at
www.spiritualalchemy.com

in brief:

22 Chapters, in four parts, over 200 pictures, plus colour pages, a foreword by John Major Jenkins, an index, bibliography, 3 appendices
Part 1: Ancient Calendars & Prophecies; Part 2: 2012 Theories; Part 3: Beyond The Veil; Part 4: Diagnosis

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(bizarrrrr ;) 625,000 Names to be Vaporized in Deep Impact

2005-07-02T22:13:35Z

The names of more than 600,000 people will be part of the fireworks July 3-4 when Comet Tempel 1 collides with the Deep Impact impactor spacecraft.

When Deep Impact was in its final stages of development, organizers in NASA's Education and Public Outreach program created the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign. The Internet-based effort allowed participants to sign their name up for destruction and print out an official certificate documenting their place on the list.

"We thought it would be fun for people to say their name was on the impactor that collided with the comet," organizer Maura Roundtree-Brown told SPACE.com. "We thought it would let them feel like they were part of the mission."

Although people could submit their names between May 2003 and January 2004, a large number waited until the last minute to sign up.

"In the end they were trying to sign up so fast that it was almost more than the system could take," Roundtree-Brown said. "In all we got about 625,000 names. It was a surprise."

Once registration closed, the list was burned onto a mini-CD and attached to the spacecraft -- tucked under the thermal blanketing to make sure no harm could come to it.

No amount of thermal blanketing will protect the CD on this holiday weekend when the impactor and comet slam together at 23,000 mph.

"It will be vaporized along with the impactor," Roundtree-Brown said.

At least one group of names on the list will be eagerly watching the sky, waiting for impact. Dee McLellan's seventh grade class at the Meadow Creek School in Andover, Minnesota did a special Deep Impact math project.

McLellan designed a class project where her students collected an amount of pennies equivalent to the mass of the impactor's copper tip -- about 300 pounds. That's a lot of pennies -- around 50,000 -- and the whole town helped the kids come up with the total.

By the end of the project, the students had raised $500, which they donated along with school supplies to their sister school in the Ukraine.

"The first we heard about it was that the class contacted us asking how much of the total mass of the impactor was copper," Roundtree-Brown said. "The exciting and successful thing for us as an outreach project is when it goes out of our hands to teachers and students and, in this case, a whole community."

While NASA will have to wait until Monday to see if they hit the mark with their impactor, Roundtree-Brown is pleased with the way the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign turned out.

"I was surprised how many people sent us emails and said that being able to submit their names to the impactor made them feel like they were part of the mission," Roundtree-Brown said. "And that's why we did it -- because it would be fun for people to be connected to the mission."

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island of love

2005-06-23T13:46:41Z

here goes a little story that i would like to share...

"Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings
lived; happiness, sadness, knowledge, and all the others,
including love.

One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island
was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave.

Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve
the island paradise until the last possible moment.

When the island was almost totally under, Love decided it was
time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help.
Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked,
"Richness, Can I come with you on your boat?"
Richness answered, " I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and
gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere."

Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help who was passing in a
beautiful vessel. Love cried out, "Vanity, help me please."
"I can't help you", Vanity said, "You are all wet and will
damage my beautiful boat."

Next, Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, "Sadness, please
let me go with you." Sadness answered, "Love, I'm sorry, but, I
just need to be alone now."

Then, Love saw Happiness. Love cried out, " Happiness, please
take me with you." But Happiness was so overjoyed that he
didn't hear Love calling to him.

Love began to cry. Then, she heard a voice say, "Come Love,
I will take you with me." It was an elder.

Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the
elder his name.

When they arrived on land the elder went on his way.
Love realized how much she owed the elder.

Love then found Knowledge and asked,
"Who was it that helped me?"

"It was Time", Knowledge answered.

"But why did Time help me when no one else would?", Love asked.

Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered,
"Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

in lak ech

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2012 News June 2005

2005-06-11T10:47:22Z

2012 News June 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

The forthcoming book, BEYOND 2012, Catastrophe or Ecstasy? is on schedule for release in mid-July

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new8.htm

2012 Antichrist Fiction? A book is coming out mixing the Maya Long Count end-date into the Book of Revelation

India Monthly: The Latest India Daily Claims: Mega Volcano and ET Landings in 2012

Did the ETs Encode 2012 in their landing Sites?: Longitude and latitude of ET landing sites have been claimed to encode the 2012 end-date of the 13-baktun cycle. Dire Gnosis checks it out...

Planetary Positions on Winter Solstice 2012: Screen shots of the sky in 2012

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

"Conversations With My Girlfriend": An account of a spontaneous channeling that sees an "ascension" occurring between 2009 and 2017.

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

Robert Berringer's book is now available: Ancient Gods and Their Mysteries
Will They Return in 2012 AD?

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

New Flyers posted in 3 languages for the Festival 2012 in Belgium in July 2005

More talks by Geoff Stray added to the series: Frome, Somerset, UK, November 2005 & Cobham, Surrey, UK November 2005

Reminder: The last 3 talks in the Earth Revelations 2012 series in Atlanta, Georgia, USA will happen on June 16th, 23rd & 30th. Bill Hamilton will speak about Dan Burisch (see Whats New item 174), David Wilcock on solar system changes and Tricia McCannon on DNA activation.

New on 2012 Discussion Groups: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/disc.htm

2 new Dutch discussion groups: Atlantis2012.com; Discussieforum 2012.pagina.nl

2012 Circle Dreams

New on Other Links (Other languages): http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

Massive Dutch 2012 Links Page (plus English translation link)

Another Dutch 2012 links page (plus English translation link)

Other News:

Joel Keene's latest article, Commencing Countdown is available here: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=10788 He also has a new news blog on the site.

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2012 NEWS MAY 2005

2005-05-13T12:16:10Z

2012 News May 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

STOP PRESS: 12th May 2005:

Robert Berringer's book is now available:

Ancient Gods and Their Mysteries
Will They Return in 2012 AD?

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new8.htm

Doctrine of Convergent Timeline Paradox: Microbiologist Dr. Dan Burisch claims that human experiments with time have caused a time loop that will trigger a pole shift in December 2012...

Lahun Chan, Tzitzimime and Chupacabras: The Chilam Balam says that Lahun Chan will "seize the earth" at the end of a 260-unit cycle. Is this already happening?

Exploding Toads Triggered by Galactic Centre?: Rumours are rife that exploding toads in Germany and Denmark may be connected with Galactic Centre...

Has the Galactic Superwave of 2012 Begun?: There are signs that the Galactic Superwave predicted by Dr. Paul Laviolette's Galactic Core Explosion theory, is on its way...

Torsion-Wave energy From Galactic Centre: David Wilcock investigates the emanation of torsion wave energy from Galactic Centre, and its ability to trigger hyperdimensional jumps.

Solar System Changes Update: David Wilcock has joined forces with Richard Hoagland to show that whatever is causing "Earth Changes" is causing changes throughout the solar system. New information from NASA is included.

New on 2012 Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/link.htm

Astrosciences.info: On Bill Hamiltons's site, this page is about Cosmic Time Cycles

Exopolitics.com: Website of Alfred Webre who wrote the free online book, Earth Changes: The Spiritual Approach (see 2012 books page)

PAG E-News: Links to articles about 2012, astronomy, UFOs, Earth Changes and conspiracies.

2012 - The Toplogy of Time : Hyperdimensional Space and the Unfolding of the Four Ages: A new article by Jay Weidner in which he explains the foreshortening of the Yugas or Hindu eras in terms of a hypersphere encapsulating conical spirals that meet at a "null point" that corresponds to 2012. This is reminiscent of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's description of the Omega Point at the tip of the cone of space-time.

New on 2012 books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

Mayan Cycleology: The Secret of the Ages and the Key to Survival in Time by Larry Tyler. I found this 1987 out-of-print book on ABE books and waded through it...read the comments here.

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

The Earth Revelations 2012 Series: A 13-Week Thursday Night Series Starting April - June 2005 Sandy Springs , Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with speakers including John Major Jenkins, Michael Tsarion, William Henry, Bill Hamilton, David Wilcock.

More dates added to Geoff Stray's 2012 talks in the UK, including Big Green Gathering and Oneness Celebration (and the WCCSG conference - see below).

John Major Jenkins now confirmed for the WCCSG conference in Marlborough, UK 13-15 Aug 2005 talk title: Mayan Calendar Shrines and the Lay of the Land".

2012 Conference in Seattle, USA in March 2006 (postponed from Nov. 2005): More details soon

New on 2012 Discussion Groups: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/disc.htm

Final Frontier 2012: A new forum, with some interesting threads.

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archaeologie

2005-04-27T20:35:48Z

Human Fossils Dated to 195,000 Years

Wed Feb 16, 1:09 PM ET Science - AP

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer

NEW YORK - A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago — perhaps close to the dawn of the species.

Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. Previously, the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens were Ethiopian skulls dated to about 160,000 years ago.

Genetic studies estimate that Homo sapiens arose about 200,000 years ago, so the new research brings the fossil record more in line with that, said John Fleagle of Stony Brook University in New York, an author of the study.

The fossils were found in 1967 near the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia. One location yielded Omo I, which includes part of a skull plus skeletal bones. Another site produced Omo II, which has more of a skull but no skeletal bones. Neither specimen has a complete face.

Although Omo II shows more primitive characteristics than Omo I, scientists called both specimens Homo sapiens and assigned a tentative age of 130,000 years.

Now, after visiting the discovery sites, analyzing their geology and testing rock samples with more modern dating techniques, Fleagle and colleagues report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature that both specimens are 195,000 years old, give or take 5,000 years.

Fleagle said the more primitive traits of Omo II may mean the two specimens came from different but overlapping Homo sapiens populations, or that they just represent natural variation within a single population.

To find the age of the skulls, the researchers determined that volcanic rock lying just below the sediment that contained the fossils was about 196,000 years old. They then found evidence that the fossil-bearing sediment was deposited soon after that time.

Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, which specializes in dating rocks, said the researchers made "a reasonably good argument" to support their dating of the fossils.

"It's more likely than not," he said, calling the work "very exciting and important."

Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution (news - web sites)'s National Museum of Natural History, said he considered the case for the new fossil ages "very strong." The work suggests that "we're right on the cusp of where the genetic evidence says the origin of modern humans ... should be," he said.

G. Philip Rightmire, a paleoanthropologist at Binghamton University in New York, said he believes the Omo fossils show Homo sapiens plus a more primitive ancestor. The find appears to represent the aftermath of the birth of Homo sapiens, when it was still living alongside its ancestral species, he said.

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New Member Introduction from Central America...

2005-04-25T21:48:23Z

I am soon elaborating a small web site unique to El Salvador and Central America, Culture, History, Travel, Spanish Study and Volunteer ops. etc. (see below) and require assistance in editing the content. Web Design as well, but a few pages so if you are an Archaeolgical, Indingenous Culture, Rainforest or even Beach nut I’ll reciprocate with some free guide services down this way. I am not much of a writer nor photog, please review my Travel Bloq http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/caguide/
of which the intro. page was edited by the manager of jetsetliving.com an ex pat site based in germany. As for your own works, our organization, “The Polyglots” http://www.thepolyglots.com/ hosts a multilingual publishing company review: http://www.multilingual-publishing.com/ where we are able to promote and publish your works in English and as well as many other languages as you require (or a summary of your work in several languages). I only work with them, so the Director is now requiring all to become full members, contact him Prof. U. Paz paz@thepolyglots.com Subject = Ref: Donald Lee, El Salvador for speedy reply. Prof. Paz is published writer and journalist in his own right. Invite you down at any time as a “Professional” review: http://www.trekshare.com/index.cfm?p1=65&catID=23&message_id=13

My homepage there: http://www.trekshare.com/members/calanguagetours/index.cfm

Again we invite you....
calanguagetours 25-Apr-05

Travel Writers, Photographers and Journalists..our focus is the Pre-Columbian to modern day Indingenous Culture of El Salvador, Guatemala and the rest of "Meso America". We hold no "orthodox nor rigid" political neither religious points of view and welcome all with an open mind and heart! The cultural center is owned and operated by two indingenous El Salvadorain natives..guide fees are waived for professionals only please, so if you are an amateur photog or budding writer we'll take you on a standard excursion.....

Eco, Cultural and Historic "pro" excursions anywhere in the country and arranged elsewhere in central America..lodgings available basic from $4.00 pp up, moderate from $8.00 pp up (includes cable tv and hot water!) and upscale $15.00 pp up.

Women traveling alone or in pairs have no fear.

Low season in Central America now, with the rainy season soon upon us (rains usually late afternoon or night, the sun shines 350 days a year in El Salvador, so you don't show up in galoshes!) All off season treks begin early a.m.
If you are heading on to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Mexico we can connect you to the finest alternative tour operators and native guides available there as well as fellow professionals in your field.

Who we are.....

XOCHIPILLI CULTURAL AND ECO TOURS

A thriving El Salvadorian center dedicated to art and culture, expressing our original Pre-Hispanic roots and style.

Centro de Arte y Cultura
Expresando al estilo del Origen…

STEP INSIDE CENTRAL AMERICA... LIKE NEVER BEFORE!

Tour with Experienced Native Guides in Guatemala, El
Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Intensive Cultural Tours Central America with
connections to Bolivia and Peru as well.
In El Salvador and Guatemala we offer to the visitor
intensive cultural, crafts and eco tours with local
guides such as El Salvadorian native
artist Danillo Villalta (OCELOT SHACTIK).

In the capital city of San Salvador, only 150 yards from the International Bus Terminal are located our offices and the artist’s workshop and nearby are two excellent low budget hotels that offer board and or lodgings from $7.00 per day per person, or less with group or weekly rates, or you may choose
to stay at one several beach houses called “ranchos”
nestled along El Salvador’s pristine coastline if just
in the mood to relax, as well we offer excursions to the mountainous regions that include camping or staying in simple mountain lodges, you choose your itinerary..go where you want ot go when you mant to go…...

Study Spanish in Central America
or Volunteer to help one of several worthy causes
ranging from human rights to disaster relief...special
welcome to artists, filmmakers, travel writers and other
journalists, photographers and especially women
travelling alone.

Our organization is not affiliated with any political
party neither religious groups, however we tailor the
itinerary to the client's needs and budget limitations
and connect you if possible with whomever you wish to
meet and escort you wherever you wish to travel. Local
guides available also in Antigua in Guatemala; Managua
and Granada in Nicaragua and Playas Del Coco, Guanacaste (near to new Liberia Internacional Airport)
situated on the idyllic northwest Pacific Costline of Costa
Rica far from the hustle and bustle of San José, the capital city.

ALL INQUIRIES ANSWERED WITHIN 24 HOURS IF POSSIBLE.
in English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Svenska or Hebrew
Donald Lee o Danillo Villalta at your service.
E mail: donaldlee@thepolyglots.com for information and reservations.

XOCHIPILLI CULTURAL Y ECO TOURS
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, CENTRAL AMERICA
A DIVISION OF THE
POLYGLOTS INTERNATIONAL
http://www.thepolyglots.com/
“dedicated to breaking
down the walls of language”

24 hour/7 day "hotline" in English or Spanish (best for unilingual English speakers) call: Donald Lee from USA/Canada 011(503)763-1335 Mobile After 14 May 2005, 8 digits 011(503)7763-1335

Travel Bloq: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/caguide/

Just one rule..you MUST notify us in advance of your arrival!
(This is the "tropics" and it takes a manana or two to arrange everything)

Thanks again! E mail when possible donaldlee@thepolyglots.com

Yahoo IM donald_tabbut2000

MSN IM centralamericaonline@hotmail.com

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Cosmic Elves Camp @ Burning Man 2005

2005-04-24T22:40:09Z

seeks galactivation oriented kin of the elvish kind to make this theme camp rock out in conjunction with Brane Village. If interested check out our tribe and introduce yours(elves).

s.

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2012 News April 2005

2005-04-18T21:50:35Z

2012 News April 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new8.htm

India Daily Goes 2012-Beserk:The 2012 -related articles in India Daily seem to be on the increase

Investigating the Origins of Dreamspell: Checking out the claims about the origins of the Dreamspell in the Books of Chilam Balam of Tizimin and Mani...

More on Maya Prophecy: The rare Tizimin and Mani books used in the Dreamspell investigation provided further insights into Maya Prophecies and their application to 2012.

Uranus and 2012: A recent report suggests that Uranus may have a more than astrological influence on coming events leading to 2012.

Other News

Galactic Centre Mystery Radio Pulse

02 March 2005 ~ NewScientist.com news service ~ Stephen Battersby

A mystery object near the centre of our galaxy is sending out powerful pulses of radio waves. It is unlike any known source. A team of astronomers led by Scott Hyman of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, US, detected the mysterious source using the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico.
The pulses are coming from a spot just to one side of the galactic centre. Each pulse lasts about 10 minutes, and they repeat regularly every 77 minutes. If, as the researchers think, the source is near the centre of the Milky Way, it would be one of the most powerful emitters in the galaxy. The shape and timing of the pulses rules out most known sources, such as radio pulsars.

The object could be a magnetar - a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field. "Magnetars store plenty of energy to power the observed outbursts," says Hyman. Or it may be something entirely new. To find out more, the team is studying it using the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, and hopes to use NASA's Chandra space telescope to see if it is also spitting out X-rays.

Journal reference: Nature (vol 434, p 50)

see http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050303122309990008

Thanks to Kathy Doore and to Joel Keene who has a new article at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=10788

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Abortion

2005-04-08T23:11:26Z

Abortion trial in Portugal suspended

Fri Apr 8, 3:01 PM ET Health - AFP

LISBON (AFP) - The trial of three women accused of violating the staunchly Roman Catholic nation's strict rules against abortion was suspended again after a defense lawyer complained the judge was biased.

The trial which got under way last June, resumed only at the end of last month after an eight-month suspension following a defense motion to remove presiding judge Maria de Conceicao Miranda, which ultimately failed.

Public prosecutors in the industrial city of Setubal, just south of Lisbon, have charged two young women who had abortions as well as a nurse who allegedly carried out the procedures in exchange for around 400 euros (515 dollars).

Abortion is banned in Portugal except in cases involving rape or where there are serious health concerns.

Pedro Delille, the lawyer for the nurse, said he was convinced his client could not receive a fair trial after the judge made a clearly biased statement.

According to the lawyer the judge stated during one of the hearings that people who "devote themselves to such crimes are generally seeking financial gain."

Several dozen opponents of liberalizing Portugal's strict abortion law demonstrated outside the court on Friday.

Defense lawyers have also unsuccessfully sought to have the trial suspended until after a new referendum on Portugal's abortion laws, expected sometime next year, is held.

Portugal's new socialist government has promised to hold a fresh vote on the abortion laws but has not yet set a date for the referendum.

Polls have shown that most Portuguese are in favor of loosening the nation's abortion laws, which are among the strictest in Europe.

In a 1998 referendum the Portuguese rejected by a whisker a proposal to allow abortion on demand during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Nearly seven out of 10 voters stayed away from the poll.

Several trials of women accused of having had an abortion held in recent years have resulted in acquittals, with judges usually invoking insufficient evidence for their ruling.

The number of back-alley abortions annually in Portugal is estimated at between about 20,000 and 40,000, while thousands more go abroad to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

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Abortion

2005-04-08T23:10:02Z

Abortion trial in Portugal suspended

Fri Apr 8, 3:01 PM ET Health - AFP

LISBON (AFP) - The trial of three women accused of violating the staunchly Roman Catholic nation's strict rules against abortion was suspended again after a defense lawyer complained the judge was biased.

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The trial which got under way last June, resumed only at the end of last month after an eight-month suspension following a defense motion to remove presiding judge Maria de Conceicao Miranda, which ultimately failed.

Public prosecutors in the industrial city of Setubal, just south of Lisbon, have charged two young women who had abortions as well as a nurse who allegedly carried out the procedures in exchange for around 400 euros (515 dollars).

Abortion is banned in Portugal except in cases involving rape or where there are serious health concerns.

Pedro Delille, the lawyer for the nurse, said he was convinced his client could not receive a fair trial after the judge made a clearly biased statement.

According to the lawyer the judge stated during one of the hearings that people who "devote themselves to such crimes are generally seeking financial gain."

Several dozen opponents of liberalizing Portugal's strict abortion law demonstrated outside the court on Friday.

Defense lawyers have also unsuccessfully sought to have the trial suspended until after a new referendum on Portugal's abortion laws, expected sometime next year, is held.

Portugal's new socialist government has promised to hold a fresh vote on the abortion laws but has not yet set a date for the referendum.

Polls have shown that most Portuguese are in favor of loosening the nation's abortion laws, which are among the strictest in Europe.

In a 1998 referendum the Portuguese rejected by a whisker a proposal to allow abortion on demand during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Nearly seven out of 10 voters stayed away from the poll.

Several trials of women accused of having had an abortion held in recent years have resulted in acquittals, with judges usually invoking insufficient evidence for their ruling.

The number of back-alley abortions annually in Portugal is estimated at between about 20,000 and 40,000, while thousands more go abroad to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

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what's the news...???

2005-04-08T07:12:40Z

this new topik is raised for us to share the amazing,weird and unbelivable news and events that hapen all days ...soo here is some:

http://news.yahoo.com/?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20040513/sc_nm/environment_greenpeace_dc

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20040513/od_nm/fire_dc

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Psychotic Compilation from Dropout Productions, San Francisco

2005-03-15T07:07:12Z

Debut album release from Dropout Productions!

http:www.dropout-productions.com

AliEN FM: The Future of Tomorrow

Alien FM is the much anticipated, first release from Dropout
Productions, located in the psychedelic headquarters of San Francisco,
CA. Alien FM is a tightly woven sonic tapestry of ancient, tribal
power and futuristic sound. This psychedelic assemblage is sure to
skyrocket dancefloors all over the planet, invoking a new definition
to the term 'trance dance'.

For CD teasers, go to: http://www.dropout-productions.com/releases.html

Track Listing:

1. Intro (cast of characters)
2. Jellyheadz - Intoxication
3. The Nommos - Whatever
4. oCeLoT - Turn It Up
5. Yohimbe - Awakening
6. Quasar - Hickadelic
7. Claw - Botox
8. Kindzadza - Surprise
9. Yab Yum - Dust Devil rmx
10. oCeLoT - Flashlight

Mastered by: Lawrence Hoffman (Chromatone / Geomagnetic Studios)
Art by visionary artist, Punkadelik. http://www.punkadelik.com/

Available Soon - More Info To Come!

In July: COSMIC WEDDING: DARK PSY FESTIVAL

We invite you to a magical celebration in the green mountains of
Switzerland where we will dance for 3 days and 2 nights.

Cosmic Wedding will take you on a mystical journey into a psychedelic
experience lead by the world's most innovative navigators of sound:

Kindzadza
Penta
Jahbo/Meteloids
Para Halu
Grapes of Wrath
oCeLoT
Jellyheadz
Dejan
and more...

More info coming soon…

Dropout supports the success of psychedelic trance culture by
unearthing mind expanding sights & sounds, and seeking the most
innovative doorways to novel realms of being. We promote music & art
that clear the mind of the dancer; honoring the true meaning of the
word 'psychedelic'.

'psychedelic' from greek psyche 'soul,mind,thought and spirit', &
delos, 'to make clear'.

Dropout is dedicated to encouraging psychedelic trance and art that
skyrockets dancefloors into full power overdrive, unfolding a clear
state of awareness and unity. Our mission is to amplify, strengthen
and celebrate psychedelic soundscapes and atmospheres. Our vision
embraces healing sound, ecstatic dance, tribal culture, and the
unifying of ancient traditions with new emerging technologies.

Dropout Productions
http://www.dropout-productions.com
info@dropout-productions.com

We are dropping out and weaving psychedelic trance culture throughout
planet earth.

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AuraQuake and Penta websites are up !

2005-03-09T00:29:09Z

Ladies and Gentlemen,
We would like to announce a simultaneous release of two Websites: www.pentafiles.com and www.auraquake.com .
The first one is the site of Penta project, the second one is of our new label, AuraQuake. A lot of people have been asking for this for a long time, so , finally, there is a place on the internet where you can get official information about Penta's gigs, bio, pictures, etc. and our future releases.

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universe news

2005-03-04T17:36:19Z

Discovered in Cosmology Breakthrough

Wed Feb 23,12:29 PM ET Science - Space.com

Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
SPACE.com

Astronomers have discovered an invisible galaxy that could be the first of many that will help unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.

The object appears to be made mostly of "dark matter," material of an unknown nature that can't be seen.

Theorists have long said most of the universe is made of dark matter. Its presence is required to explain the extra gravitational force that is observed to hold regular galaxies together and that also binds large clusters of galaxies.

Theorists also believe knots of dark matter were integral to the formation of the first stars and galaxies. In the early universe, dark matter condensed like water droplets on a spider web, the thinking goes. Regular matter -- mostly hydrogen gas -- was gravitationally attracted to a dark matter knot, and when the density became great enough, a star would form, marking the birth of a galaxy.

The theory suggests that pockets of pure dark matter ought to remain sprinkled across the cosmos. In 2001, a team led by Neil Trentham of the University of Cambridge predicted the presence of entire dark galaxies.

One of perhaps many

The newfound dark galaxy was detected with radio telescopes. Similar objects could be very common or very rare, said Robert Minchin of Cardiff University in the UK.

"If they are the missing dark matter halos predicted by galaxy formation simulations but not found in optical surveys, then there could be more dark galaxies than ordinary ones," Minchin told SPACE.com.

In a cluster of galaxies known as Virgo, some 50 million light-years away, Minchin and colleagues looked for radio-wavelength radiation coming from hydrogen gas. They found a well of it that contains a hundred million times the mass of the Sun. It is now named VIRGOHI21.

The well of material rotates too quickly to be explained by the observed amount of gas. Something else must serve as gravitational glue.

"From the speed it is spinning, we realized that VIRGOHI21 was a thousand times more massive than could be accounted for by the observed hydrogen atoms alone," Minchin said. "If it were an ordinary galaxy, then it should be quite bright and would be visible with a good amateur telescope."

The ratio of dark matter to regular matter is at least 500-to-1, which is higher than I would expect in an ordinary galaxy," Minchin said. "However, it is very hard to know what to expect with such a unique object -- it may be that high ratios like this are necessary to keep the gas from collapsing to form stars."

Long road to discovery

Other potential dark galaxies have been found previously, but closer observations revealed stars in the mix. Intense visible-light observations reveal no stars in VIRGOHI21.

The invisible galaxy is thought to lack stars because its density is not high enough to trigger star birth, the astronomers said.

The discovery was made in 2000 with the University of Manchester's Lovell Telescope, and the astronomers have worked since then to verify the work. It was announced today.

"The universe has all sorts of secrets still to reveal to us, but this shows that we are beginning to understand how to look at it in the right way," said astronomer Jon Davies of Cardiff University in the UK. It's a really exciting discovery."
Additional radio observations were made with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Follow-up optical work was done with the Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma. Astronomers from the UK, France, Italy and Australia contributed to the research. The project is now searching for other possible dark galaxies.

Dark matter makes up about 23 percent of the universe's mass-energy budget. Normal matter, the stuff of stars, planets and people, contributes just 4 percent. The rest of the universe is driven by an even more mysterious thing called dark energy.

Prediction of Dark Galaxies in 2001
About Dark Matter
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2012 News March 2005

2005-03-03T00:48:13Z

2012 News March 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

***Unfortunately, the release date of the Long-Awaited BEYOND 2012 book has been delayed until "late spring"***

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new8.htm

Merlin Project Predicts 2012: Software that its creators claim is able to predict the future, combining "planetary mathematics with recognised historical cycles" has detected an anomaly between 2010 and 2012

Blair on 2012...renowned politician acknowledges the huge importance of that year

Jaguar Prophet V Closer of the Cycle: the gloves are off, as Carl Calleman lays into Jose Arguelles...

Hyderabad Scientists Predict Geomagnetic Reversal in 2012: India Daily report hot off the press today, March 1st 2005...

Nibiru Updates: Marshall Masters interviews Dutch physicist, Jacco Van der Worp about a Nibiru flyby between 2011 & 2013 - other interviews include an ex-archaeologist turned anthropologist who thinks the Long Count is based around the return of a celestial body.

Tsunami Conspiracy Theory: One of the Thailand prophecies has been fulfilled, says Edwardo (other Thailand prophecies concerned 2012)

New on 2012 Books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

The World Cataclysm in 2012: Due out in Summer 2005, this is Patrick Geryl's follow-up to The Orion Prophecy, which Dire Gnosis analysed in a detailed review ...read it here: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/orp.htm

How to Survive 2012? Geryl's next-but-one book due out in Spring 2006, in which he co-ordinates an effort to save mankind from extinction

Ormus: The Missing Link/Sexual Androgyny by Dr. Alfred Dominic Borda - who you may recall from and discussion groups about Rennes-le-Chateau, crystal skulls, etc.

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

Changes and additions to forthcoming 2012 events include a new flyer for the 2012 Festival in Belgium in July.

New on Maya Links & date Calculators: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/mlink.htm

Last month's updates did not upload properly, so the page has been re-uploaded even more has now been added, such as:

4 new online Maya date calculators/converters including:

An amazing animation of a Maya stela that shows Long Count, Tzolkin and Haab calendars plus Gregorian and Maya day number

Kurdish calendar converter

7 new downloadable Maya calculator/converters including:

Software for Apple Macs, Linux, Unix and Palms

A Maya Calendar Wristwatch converter is now possible by combining the newly released Palm OS watch with one of the 2 Palm OS Maya calendar programs (if you get one, send Dire Gnosis your review!)

New on 2012 Discussion Groups: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/disc.htm

12 New MSN discussion groups, in a variety of languages - English, Dutch, French, Spanish (- must look out for German ones)

Dec 21, 2012 ; ESTUDOS DA INCLINAÇÃO DO EIXO DA TERRA; White Light City; TESTAMENT____2000>>>>2013; Spiritueel en Paranormale Gaven; Area2012; Nibiru, inversion des pôles 2012 ?; 2012 preparandonos para el cambio; 2012 AD End-Times info;

New 2012 Tribes: Terence McKenna-Amazon DreamTime; "21122012"; Acores2012

Other News

The Mystery book mentioned last month on Other Links (other languages) - Galakticka Transformace 2012 by "Jenkins Jo." : No it's not Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 - its Galactic Alignment recently translated and released in Czech republic. Thanks to JMJ

For those who tried the Psilocybin Solution link and found it was a dead link, the link & subsequent archived correction were blocked. I have been in touch with the author, Simon Powell, and he says that the book is due to be published in a few months time by http://www.entheogenesis.info and the title will be changed to Gods Flesh: Sacred Mushrooms and the Quest for Higher Knowledge. At his website, he has a multi-media item called Sacred Ground available...see more here: http://www.island.org/prescience/sg.html Thanks to Richard Loren & Caroline Taylor for pointing out the link problem

"Today's Maya Date" has been added to the index page and also new Maya-land flags

Earth now has 13 tectonic plates, having had only 12 for the last 50 million years...http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/95/18688.html

Another link about Berber links to the Maya: http://www.geocities.com/rachmatfisher/olmecs_and_twelve_sea_roads.html

World oil production will peak in 2012 http://www.serendipity.li/wot/hsing_lee/remember_9-11_1.htm

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rainforest

2005-02-24T23:30:54Z

The Disappearing Rainforests

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We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years
One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.
Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.
Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and micro-organisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to Rainforest deforestation.
Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold world-wide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.
Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destoyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.
Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a Rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.
When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants.

The Wealth of the Rainforests

The Amazonian Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world.
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.
More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.
One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.
At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its bountiful gifts to the world include fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangoes and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, turmeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.
At least 3000 fruits are found in the rainforests; of these only 200 are now in use in the Western World. The Indians of the rainforest use over 2,000.
Rainforest plants are rich in secondary metabolites, particularly alkaloids. Biochemists believe alkaloids protect plants from disease and insect attacks.. Many alkaloids from higher plants have proven to be of medicinal value and benefit.
Currently, 121 prescription drugs currently sold world-wide come from plant-derived sources. And while 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has identified 3000 plants that are active against cancer cells. 70% of these plants are found in the rainforest. Twenty-five percent of the active ingredients in today's cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest
Vincristine, extracted from the rainforest plant, Periwinkle, (see plant database) is one of the world's most powerful anticancer drugs. It has dramatically increased the survival rate for acute childhood leukaemia since its discovery.
In 1983, there were no U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers involved in research programs to discover new drugs or cures from plants. Today, over 100 pharmaceutical companies and several branches of the US government, including giants like Merck and The National Cancer Institute, are engaged in plant research projects for possible drugs and cures for viruses, infections, cancer and even AIDS.

Rainforest Action

Experts agree that by leaving the rainforests intact and harvesting it's many nuts, fruits, oil-producing plants, and medicinal plants, the rainforest has more economic value than if they were cut down to make grazing land for cattle or for timber..
The latest statistics show that rainforest land converted to cattle operations yields the land owner $60 per acre and if timber is harvested, the land is worth $400 per acre. However, if these renewable and sustainable resources are harvested, the land will yield the land owner $2,400 per acre.
If managed properly, the rainforest can provide the world's need for these natural resources on a perpetual basis.
Promoting the use of these sustainable and renewable sources could stop the destruction of the Rainforests. By creating a new source of income harvesting the medicinal plants, fruits nuts, oil and other sustainable resources, the rainforests is be more valuable alive than cut and burned.
Sufficient demand of sustainable and ecologically harvested Rainforest products is necessary for preservation efforts to succeed. Purchasing sustainable rainforest products can effect positive change by creating a market for these products while supporting the native people's economy and provides the economic solution and alternative to cutting the forest just for the value of its timber.

The following has been excerpted from the book,Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest (Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA) By Leslie Taylor
The Destruction of the Majestic Rainforest
The beauty, majesty and timelessness of a primary rainforest is indescribable. It is impossible to capture on film, to describe in words or to explain to those who have never had the awe-inspiring experience of standing in the heart of a primary rainforest. Rainforests have evolved over millions of years to turn into the incredibly complex environments they are today. A rainforest represents a store of living and breathing renewable natural resources, which have for aeons, by virtue of their richness in both animal and plant species, contributed a wealth of resources for the survival and well-being of man. These have included basic food supplies, clothing, shelter, fuel, spices, industrial raw materials and medicine for all those that have lived sustainably in the majesty of the forest. However, the inner dynamics of a tropical rainforest are an intricate and fragile system where everything is so interdependent that upsetting one part can lead to unknown damage or even destruction of the whole. Sadly, it has taken only a century of man's intervention to destroy what nature has so intricately designed to last forever.

In 1950, 15% of the earth's land surface was covered by rainforest. Today, more than half has already gone up in smoke. A century ago, half of India and a third of Ethiopia were covered by forest, now only fourteen percent in India remains and only one-third is left in Ethiopia. Eight out of ten trees in Ghana have been cut down. Three quarters of the trees of the Ivory Coast are gone. More than twenty percent of the Amazon Rainforest is already gone and much more is severely threatened as destruction continues to escalate. Statistics reported in 1996 reported the Amazon showed a 34 percent increase in deforestation since 1992. A new report by a congressional committee says the Amazon is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year. That's more than three times the rate of 1994, the last year for which official figures are available. "If nothing is done, the entire Amazon will be gone within 50 years," said the 110-page report's author, Rep. Gilney Vianna of the leftist Worker's Party in the Amazon state of Mato Grosso. Yet another recent report said new figures showed that in the Brazilian Amazon, forest fires increased by more than 50 percent over 1996.

In less than 50 years, more than half of the world's tropical rainforests have fallen victim to fire and the chain saw and the rate of destruction is still accelerating. Unbelievably, over 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. That is over 150 acres lost every minute of every day, and 78 million acres are lost every year! More tropical forest burned around the world in 1997 than at any other time in recorded history, a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The fund said "1997 will be remembered as the year the world caught fire," said Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, head of its forest program.

Massive deforestation brings with it many ugly consequences - air and water pollution, soil erosion, malaria epidemics, the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the eviction and decimation of Indigenous Indian tribes, and the loss of bio-diversity through extinction of plants and animals. Less Rainforests means less rain, less oxygen for us to breathe, and an even greater threat from global warming.

But who is really to blame? Consider what we industrialised Americans have done to our own homeland... we converted ninety percent of North America's virgin forests into firewood, shingles, furniture, railroad ties and paper. Other industrialised countries have done no better. Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil, among other tropical countries with rainforests, are often branded as "environmental villains" of the world, mainly due to their reported levels of destruction of their rainforests. But despite the levels of deforestation, they are still covered by up to 60% of their territory by natural tropical forests. In fact, much of the pressure today on their remaining rainforests come from servicing the needs and markets for wood products in industrialised countries who have already depleted their own natural resources. Industrial countries would not be buying rainforest hardwoods and timber had we not cut down our own trees long ago nor would poachers in the Amazon jungle be slaughtering jaguar, ocelot, caiman and otter if we did not provide lucrative markets for their skins in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo.

The Biodiversity of the Rainforest
So why should the loss of tropical forests be of any more concern to us in light of our own poor management of natural resources? The loss of tropical rainforests has a profound and devastating world impact because rainforests are so much more biologically diverse.

Consider these facts:

A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than are found in all of Europe's rivers;
A twenty-five acre plot of rainforest in Borneo may contain over seven hundred species of trees - a number equal to the total tree diversity of North America;
A single rainforest reserve in Peru is home to more species of birds than the entire United States;
One single tree in Peru was found to harbor forty-three different species of ants - a total that approximates the entire ant species in the British Isles.

The biodiversity of the tropical rainforest is so immense that less than one percent of its millions of species have been studied by scientists for active constituents and their possible uses for man. When an acre of topical rainforest is lost, the impact to the number of plant, animal and insect species lost and their possible uses is staggering. Scientific experts estimate that we are losing over 137 species of plants, animals and insects every single day because of rainforest deforestation.

Surprisingly, scientists have a better understanding of how many stars there are in the galaxy than how many species there are on Earth. Estimates of global species diversity have varied from 2 million to 100 million species, with a best estimate of somewhere near 10 million, and only 1.4 million have actually been named. Today, Rainforests occupy only 2% of the entire earth's surface and 6% of the world's land surface, yet these remaining lush rainforests support over half of our plants wild plants and trees and one-half of the world's wildlife. Hundreds and thousands of these rainforest species are being extinguished before they have even been identified, much less cataloged and studied. The magnitude of this loss to the world was most poignantly described by Harvard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist, Edward O. Wilson, over 10 years ago...

"The worst thing that happened during the 1980's was not energy depletion, economic collapses, limited nuclear war, or conquest by a totalitarian government. As terrible as these catastrophes were for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980's that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us for."

Yet still the destruction continues. If deforestation continues at current rates, scientists estimate nearly 80 to 90 percent of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020. This destruction is the main force driving a species extinction rate unmatched in 65 million years.

The Amazon Rainforest... The Last Frontier on Earth
If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world. The Amazon Rainforest, the world's greatest remaining natural resource, is the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. It has as been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. It is estimated that over twenty percent of earth's oxygen is produced in this area.

The Amazon rainforest covers over 1.2 billion acres representing two-fifths of the enormous South American continent and is found in nine South American countries: Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the three Guyanas. With 2.5 million square miles of rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest represents 54 percent of the total rainforests left on the planet.

The life force of the Amazon Rainforest is the mighty Amazon River. It starts as a trickle high in the snow-capped Andes mountains and flows over 4,000 miles across the South American continent until it enters the Atlantic ocean at Belem, Brazil where it is 200 to 300 miles across, depending on the season. Even 1,000 miles inland, it is still 7 miles in width. The river is so deep that ocean liners can travel 2,300 miles inland, up its length. The Amazon River flows through the center of the rainforest and is fed by 1,100 tributaries, seventeen of which are over 1,000 miles long. The Amazon is by far the largest river system in the world and over two-thirds of all the fresh water found on earth is in the Amazon basin's rivers, streams and tributaries. With so much water its not unusual that that the main mode of transportation throughout the area is by boat. The smallest and most common boats used today are still made out of hollowed tree trunks, whether they are powered by outboard motors or more often by man-powered paddles. Almost 14,000 miles of Amazon waterway are navigable and several million miles through swamps and forests are penetrable by canoe. The enormous Amazon River carries massive amounts of silt from run-off from the rainforest floor. Massive amounts of silt deposited at the mouth of the Amazon river has created the largest river island in the world, Marajo Island, which is roughly the size of Switzerland. With this massive fresh water system, it not unusual that the life beneath the water is as abundant and diverse as the surrounding rainforest's plant and animal species. Over 2,000 species of fish have been identified in the Amazon Basin - more species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.

The Amazon Basin was formed in the Paleozoic period, somewhere between 500 and 200 million years ago. The extreme age of the region in geologic terms has much to do with the relative infertility of the rainforest soil and the richness and unique diversity of the plant and animal life. There are more fertile areas in the Amazon River's flood plain, where the river deposits richer soil brought from the Andes, which only formed 20 million years ago. The rich diversity of plant species in the Amazon Rainforest is the highest on earth. Experts show that one hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants and it is estimated that one hectare of Amazon rainforest contains about 900 tons of living plants. Altogether it contains the largest collection of living plants and animal species in the world. The Andean mountain range and the Amazon jungle are home to more than half of the world's species of flora and fauna and one in five of all the birds in the world live in the rainforests of the Amazon.. To date, some 438,000 species of plants of economic and social interest have been registered in the region and many more have yet been cataloged or even discovered.

Once a vast sea of tropical forest, the Amazon rainforest today is scarred by roads, farms, ranches and dams. Brazil is gifted with a full third of the world's remaining rainforests and unfortunately, it is also one of the world's great rainforest destroyers, burning or felling over 2.7 million acres each year. Today, more than 20 percent of rainforest in the Amazon has been razed and is gone forever. This ocean of green nearly as large as Australia, is the last great rainforest in the known universe and it is being decimated like the others before it. Why? Like other rainforests already lost forever, the land is being cleared for logging timber, large scale cattle ranching, mining operations, government road building and hydroelectric schemes, military operations, and the subsistence agriculture of peasants and landless settlers. Sadder still, in many places the rainforests are burnt simply to provide charcoal to power industrial plants in the area.

The Driving Forces of Destruction
Commercial logging is the single largest cause of rainforest destruction both directly and indirectly. The simple fact is that they are destroying the Amazon Rainforest and the rest of the rainforests of the world because "they can't see the forest for the trees." Logging tropical hardwoods like teak, mahogany, rosewood and other timber for furniture, building materials, charcoal and other wood products is big business and big profits. Several species of tropical hardwoods are imported by developed counties, including America, just to build coffins which are then buried or burned. The demand, extraction and consumption of tropical hardwoods has been so massive that some countries which have been traditional exporters of tropical hardwoods are now importing them because they have already exhausted their supply by destroying their native rainforests in slash and burn operations. It is anticipated that The Phillippines, Malaysia, The Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Thailand will soon follow as all these countries will run out of rainforest hardwood timber for export in less than five years. Japan is the largest importer of tropical woods. Despite recent reductions, Japan's 1995 tropical timber import total of 11,695,000 cubic meters is still gluttonous; damaging to the ecological, biological and social fabric of tropical lands, and clearly unsustainable for any length of time.

Behind the hardwood logger come others down the same roads built to transport the timber. The cardboard packing and the wood chipboard industries use 15 ton machines that gobble up the rainforest with 8 foot cutting discs that have eight blades revolving 320 times a minute which cut entire trees into chips half the size of a matchbox. More than 200 species of trees can be gobbled up by these machines which are currently clearing 320 square miles of rainforest in Papua New Guinea to provide a fraction of the demand of these two industries. These same land devouring machines are meeting the remaining world demand in the Amazon and Australian rainforests.

Logging rainforest timber is a large economic source, and in many cases, the main source of revenues for servicing the national debt of developing countries. Logging profits are real to these countries who must service their debts, but are they are fleeting. Governments are selling their assets too cheaply, and once the rainforest is gone, their source of income is gone. Sadly, most of the real profits of the timber trade are made not by the developing countries, but by multi-national companies and industrialists of the northern hemisphere. These huge profit driven companies pay governments a fraction of the timber's worth for large logging concessions on immense tracts of rainforest land and reap huge profits by harvesting the timber in the most economical manner feasible with little regard to the destruction left in their wake. Logging concessions in the Amazon are sold for as little as $2 per acre with logging companies felling timber worth thousands of dollars per acre. Governments are selling their natural resources, hawking for pennies, resources that soon will be worth billions of dollars. Some of these government concessions and land deals made with industrialists make the sale of Manhattan for twenty-four dollars worth of trinkets look shrewd. In 1986, a huge industrial timber corporation bought thousands of acres in the Borneo rainforest by giving 2,000 Malaysian dollars to 12 longhouses of local tribes. This sum amounted to the price of two bottles of beer for each member of the community. Since then this company and others have managed to extract and destroy about a third of the Borneo rainforest - about 6.9 million acres and the local tribes have been evicted from the area or forced to work for the logging companies at slave wages.

In addition to logging for exportation, rainforest wood stays in developing countries for fuel wood and charcoal. One single steel plant in Brazil making steel for Japanese cars needs millions of tons of wood each year to produce charcoal that can be used in the manufacture of steel. Then there is the paper industry. A pulpwood project in the Brazilian Amazon consists of a Japanese power plant and pulp mill. To set up this single plant operation, 5,600 square miles of Amazon Rainforest was burned to the ground and replanted with pulpwood trees. This single manufacturing plant consumes 2,000 tons of surrounding rainforest wood every day to produce 55 megawatts of electricity to run the plant. The plant, which has been in operation since 1978, produces over 750 tons of pulp for paper every 24 hours, worth approximately $500,000 and has built 2,800 miles of roads through the Amazon rainforest to be used by its 700 vehicles. In addition to this pulp mill, the world's biggest pulp mill is the Aracruz mill in Brazil; its two units produce one million tons of pulp a year and displaced thousands of indigenous tribes harvesting the rainforest to keep the plant in business. Where does all this pulp go? Aracruz's biggest customers are the United States, Belgium, Great Britain, and Japan. More and more rainforest is destroyed to meet the demand of developed world's paper industry which requires a staggering 200 million tons of wood each year simply to make paper. If the world continues at the present rate, 4 billion tons of wood is estimated to be consumed annually by the year 2020 in the paper industry alone.

Even more rainforest is destroyed by mining operations. Brazil sits on one of the worlds largest reserves of iron ore and has ample gold, semiprecious and precious stones, natural gas and oil reserves as well. Strip mining is common in the Amazon and huge chunks of rainforest land is lost every year to mining operations. Even more lands are lost to the polution caused by these mining operations as the constant water runoff in the rainforest carries the waste oil, mercury, and other pollutinates and contaminants used. Mecury poisoning by animal and human inhabitants alike is becomming a common problem as the mecury used in strip mining and gold mining operations runs off into the rivers and streams and is carried hundreds of miles.

Once an area of rainforest has been logged, even if given the rare change to re-grow, it can never became what it once was. The intricate ecosystem nature devised is lost forever. Only 1-2 percent of light at the top of a rainforest canopy manages to reach the forest floor below. Most times when timber is harvested, the plants and animals of the original forest becomes extinct, and trees and other plants that have evolved over centuries to grow in the dark, humid environment below the canopy simply cannot live out in the open. Even if only sections of land throughout an area are destroyed, these remnants change drastically. Birds and other animals cannot cross from one to another in the canopy, so plants are not pollinated, seeds are not dispersed by the animals and the plants around the edges are not surrounded by the high jungle humidity which they need to grow properly. As a result, the remnants slowly become degraded and die. Rains come and wash away the thin topsoil that was previously protected by the canopy and this barren unfertile land results in erosion. Sometimes the land is replanted in African grasses for cattle operations and other times, more virgin rainforest is destroyed for cattle operations because planting grass on recently burned land has a better change to grow.

As the demand in the Western world for cheap meat increases, more and more rainforest is destroyed to provide grazing land for animals. In South America alone, there are an estimated 220 million head of cattle, 20 million goats, 60 million pigs and 700 million chickens. Most of Central and Latin America's tropical and temperate rainforests have been lost to cattle operations to meet the world demand, and still the cattle operations continue to move southward into the heart of the South American Rainforests. To graze one steer in Amazonia, it takes two full acres. Most of the ranchers in the Amazon operate at a loss, yielding only paper profits purely as tax shelters. Rancher's fortunes are made only when ranching is supported by government giveaways. A banker or rich land owner in Brazil can slash and burn a huge tract of land in the Amazon rainforest, seed it with grass for cattle and realize millions of dollars worth of government-subsidized loans, tax-credits and write offs in return for developing the land. These government development schemes rarely make a profit actually selling cheap beef to industrialized nations. One single cattle operation in Brazil that was co-owned by British Barclays Bank and one of Brazil's wealthiest families was responsible for the destruction of almost 500,000 acres of virgin rainforest. The cattle operation never made a profit but government write-offs sheltered huge logging profits earned off of logging other land in the Brazilian rainforest owned by the same investors. These generous tax and credit incentives have created over 29 million acres of large cattle ranches in the Brazilian Amazon, even though the typical ranch could cover less that half its costs without these subsidies.

This type of government-driven destruction of rainforest land is promoted by a common attitude among governments in rainforest regions that the forest is an economic resource to be harnessed to aid in the development of their countries. The same attitudes that accompanied the colonization of our own frontier are found today in Brazil and other countries with wild unharnessed rainforest wilderness. These beliefs are exemplified in a Brazilian official's public statement that "not until all Amazonas is colonized by real Brazilians, not Indians, can we truly say we own it." Were we Americans any different with our own colonization decimating the North American Indian tribes? Like Brazil, we sent out a call to all the world that America had land for the landless in an effort to increase colonization of our land at the expense of our Indigenous Indian tribes. And like the first America colonists, colonization in the rainforest really means subsistence farming.

Subsistence farming has for centuries been a driving force in the loss of rainforest land and as populations explode in third world countries in South American and the Far East, the impact has been profound. By tradition, wildlands and unsettled lands in the rainforest are free to those who clear the forest and till the soil. "Squatter's Rights" still prevail and poor, hungry people show little enthusiasm for arguments about the value of biodiversity or the plight of endangered species. The present approach to rainforest cultivation produces wealth for a few, for a short time because farming burned-off tracts of Amazon rainforest seldom works for long. Less than ten percent of Amazonian soils are suitable for sustained conventional agriculture. However lush they look, rainforests often flourish on such nutrient-poor soils that they are essentially "wet deserts," easier to damage and harder to cultivate than any other soil. Most are exhausted by the time they have produced three or four crops. Many of the thousands of homesteaders who migrated from Brazil's cities to the wilds of the rainforest, responding to the government's call of "land without men for men without land," have already had to abandon their depleted farms and move on, leaving behind fields of baked clay dotted with stagnant pools of polluted water. Experts agree that the path to conservation begins with helping these local residents meet their own daily needs. Because of the infertility of the soil, and the lack of knowledge of sustainable cultivation practices, this type of agriculture strips the soil of nutrients within a few harvests and the farmers continue to move farther into the rainforest in search of new land. They must be helped and educated to break free of the need to continually clear rainforest in search of fresh, fertile land if the rainforest is to be saved.

Directly and indirectly, the leading threats to rainforest ecosystems are governments and their unbridled, unplanned and uncoordinated development of natural resources. Rainforest timber exports and large scale development projects go a long way in servicing national debt in many developing countries which is why governments and, international aid-lending institutions like the World Bank supports them. In the tropics, governments own or control nearly 80 percent of tropical forests, so these forests stand or fall according to government policy and in many countries, government policies lie behind the wastage of forest resources. Besides the tax incentives and credit subsidies which guarantee large profits to private investors who convert forests to pastures and farms, governments allow private concessionaires to log the national forests on terms that induce uneconomic or wasteful uses of the public domain. Massive public expenditures on highways, dams, plantations, and agricultural settlements, too often supported by multilateral development lending, convert or destroy large areas of forest for projects of questionable economic worth.

Tropical counties are among the poorest countries on Earth. Brazil alone spends 40 percent of its annual income simply servicing its loans and the per capita income of Brazil's people is less than $2,000 annually. Sadly, these numbers don't even represent an accurate picture in the Amazon because Brazil is one of the richer countries in South America. These struggling Amazonian countries must also manage the most complex, delicate and valuable forests remaining in the planet and the economic and technological resources available to them are limited. They must also endure a dramatic social and economic situation, plus deeply adverse terms of trade and financial relationships with industrial countries. Under such conditions, the possibility of them reaching sustainable models of development alone are nearly impossible. There is a clear need for industrial countries to sincerely and effectively assist the tropics in a quest for sustainable forest management and development if the remaining rainforests are to be saved. The governments of these developing countries need help in learning how to manage and protect their natural resources for long term profits while still managing to service their debts and they must be given the incentives and tools to do so. Programs to redefine the timber concessions so concessionaires have greater incentives to guard the long-term health of the forest and programs to revive and expand community-based forestry schemes, which ensure more rational use of forests and a better life for the people who live near them must be developed First-world capital must seek out opportunities to partner with organizations that have the technical expertise to guide these programs of sustainable economic development. In addition, programs teaching techniques for sustainable harvesting practices and identifying profitable, yet sustainable forest products can enable developing countries to improve the standard of living for its people, service national debt, and contribute meaningfully to the country's land use planning and conservation of natural resources.

The Rainforest, It's the Pharmacy to the World!
It is estimated that nearly half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and micro-organisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to Rainforest deforestation. Harvard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist, Edward O. Wilson, estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day. That's 50,000 species a year! Again, why should we in the United States be concerned about the destruction of distant tropical rain forests? Because rain forest plants are complex chemical storehouses that contain many undiscovered biodynamic compounds with unrealized potential for use in modern medicine. We can gain access to these materials only it we study and conserve the species that contain them. Rainforests currently provide sources providing one-fourth of today's medicines, and 70% of the plants found to have anti-cancer properties are found only in the rainforest. The Rainforest and it's immense undiscovered biodiversity holds the key to unlocking tomorrow's cures for devastating diseases. How many cures to devastating disease have we already lost?

Two drugs obtained from a rainforest plant known as the Madagascar periwinkle, now extinct in the wild due to deforestation of the Madagascar rainforest, has increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent. Think about it - 8 out of 10 children are now saved rather than 8 of 10 children dying from leukemia. How many children have been spared and how many more will continue to be spared because of this single rainforest plant? What if we failed to discover this one important plant among millions before it was extinct due to man's destruction? When our remaining rainforests are gone, the rare plants, animals will be lost forever and so will their possible cures to diseases like cancer.

No one can challenge the fact that man is still largely dependant on plants for treating his aliments. Almost 90 percent of people in developing countries still rely on traditional medicine--based largely on species of plants and animals--for their primary health care. In the United States, some 25 percent of prescriptions are filled with drugs whose active ingredients are extracted or derived from plants. Sales of these plant-based drugs in the U.S. amounted to some $4.5 billion in 1980. Worldwide sales of these plant-based drugs were estimated at $40 billion in 1990. Still even more drugs are derived from animals and microorganisms. Currently 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant derived sources from only 90 species of plants.

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has identified over 3,000 plants that are active against cancer cells, and 70% of these plants are found only in the rainforest. Today, over 25% of the active ingredients in today's cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the Rainforest. Among the thousands of species of rainforest plants that have not been analyzed, are many more thousands of unknown plant chemicals, many of which have evolved to protect the plants from pathogens. These plant chemicals may well help us in our own constant struggle with constantly evolving pathogens such as evolving bacteria-resistant pathogens in tuberculosis, measles, and HIV. Experts now believe that if there is a cure for cancer and even AIDS, it will probably be found in the rainforest.

In 1983, there were no U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers involved in research programs to discover new drugs or cures from plants. Today, over 100 pharmaceutical companies and several branches of the US government, including giants like Merck, Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, SmithKline Beecham and the National Cancer Institute are engaged in plant-based research projects for possible drugs and cures for viruses, infections, cancer and AIDS. Most of this research is currently taking place in the rainforest in an industry that is now called "bio-prospecting." This new pharmacological industry has sprung up, drawing together an unlikely confederacy: plant-collectors and anthropologists; ecologists and conservationists; natural product companies and nutritional supplement manufacturers, AIDS and cancer researchers; executives in the world's largest drug companies, and native indigenous shamans. They are part of a radical experiment - to preserve the world's rainforests by showing how much more valuable they are standing than cut down. And it is a race against a clock whose every tick means another acre of charred forest. Yet it is also a race that pits one explorer against another, for those who score the first big hit in chemical bio-prospecting will secure wealth and a piece of scientific immortality.

In November 1991, Merck Pharmaceutical Company announced a landmark agreement to obtain samples of wild plants and animals for drug-screening purposes from Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). Spurred by this and other biodiversity prospecting ventures, interest in the commercial value of plant genetic and biochemical resources is burgeoning today. While the Merck-INBio agreement provides a fascinating example of a private partnership that contributes to rural economic development, rainforest conservation, and technology transfer, virtually no precedent exists for national policies and legislation to govern and regulate what amounts to a brand new industry.

Since wealth and technology are as concentrated in the North as biodiversity and poverty are in the South, the question of equity is particularly hard to answer in ways that satisfy everyone with a stake in the outcome. The interests of bioprospecting corporations are not the same as those of people who live in a biodiversity "hot spot," many of them barely eking out a living. As the search for wild species whose genes can yield new medicines and better crops gathers momentum, these rich habitats also sport more and more bio-prospectors. Like the nineteenth-century California gold rush or its present-day counterpart in Brazil, this "gene rush" could wreak havoc on ecosystems and the people living in or near them. Done properly, however, bioprospecting can bolster both economic and conservation goals while underpinning the medical and agricultural advances needed to combat disease and sustain growing populations.

The majority of our current plant-derived drugs were discovered through these traditional uses of plants by the indigenous people where they grew and flourished. History has shown that the rainforest is no different, and these bioprospectors now are working side by side with rainforest tribal shamans and herbal healers to learn the wealth of their plant knowledge and many uses of indigenous plants where drugs and pharmacies are virtually unknown.

Unlocking the Secrets of the Rainforest
After the Ameri-Indians discovered America, about 20 millennia before Columbus, all their clothing, food, medicine and shelter were derived from the forests. Those millennia gave the Indians time to discover and learn empirically the virtues and vices of the thousands of edible and medicinal species in the rainforest. More than 80% of the developed world's diet originated from the rainforest and this empirical indigenous knowledge of the wealth of edible fruits, vegetables and nuts. Of the estimated 3,000 edible fruits found in the rainforest, only 200 are cultivated for use today, despite the fact that the Indians use more than 1,500. Many secrets and untold treasures await discovery with the medicinal plants used by shamans, healers and the indigenous people of the rainforest Tribes. Long regarded as hocus- pocus by science, Indigenous People's empirical plant knowledge is now thought by many to be the Amazon's new gold. This indigenous use of the plants provides the bioprospector with the necessary clues to target specific species to research in the race for time before the species are lost to deforestation. More often the race is defined as to be the first company to patent a new drug utilizing a newly discovered rainforest phytochemical, and of course, profits for the pharmaceutical companies.

Laboratory syntheses of new medicines is increasingly costly and not as fruitful as companies would like. In the words of one major drug company: "Scientists may be able to make any molecule they can imagine on a computer, but Mother Nature...is an infinitely more ingenuous and exciting chemist." Scientists have developed new technologies to assess the chemical makeup of plants and they realize using medicinal plants identified by Indians makes research more efficient and less expensive. With these new trends, drug development has actually returned to its roots - traditional medicine. It is now understood by bioprospectors that tribal people of the rainforest represent the key to finding new and useful tropical forest plants. The degree to which they understand and are able sustainably to use this diversity is astounding. The Barasan Indians of Amazonian Columbia can identify all of the tree species in their territory without having to refer to the fruit or flowers, a feat that no university-trained botanist is able to accomplish! A single Amazonian tribe of Indians may use over 200 species of plants for medicinal purposes alone.

Of the 121 pharmaceutical drugs that are plant-derived today, 74% were discovered through follow up research to verify the authenticity of information concerning the ethnic medical uses of the plant. Nevertheless, to this day, very few rainforest tribes have been subjected to a complete ethnobotanical analysis. Robert Goodland of the World Bank wrote,

"Indigenous knowledge is essential for the use, identification and cataloguing of the [tropical] biota. As tribal groups disappear, their knowledge vanishes with them. The preservation of these groups is a significant economic opportunity for the [developing] nation, not a luxury."
Since Amazonian Indians are often the only ones who know both the properties of these plants and how they can best be used, their knowledge is now being considered an essential component of all efforts to conserve and develop the rainforest. Since failure to document this lore would represent a tremendous economic and scientific loss to the industrialized world, the bioprospectors are now are working side by side with the rainforest tribal shamans and herbal healers to learn the wealth of their plant knowledge. But bioprospecting has a dark side. Indian knowledge that has resisted the pressure of "modernization" is being used by bioprospectors who, like oil companies and loggers destroying the forests, threaten to leave no benefits behind them.

Its a noble idea, the ethnobotanist who works with the Indians seeking a cure for cancer or even AIDS, like Sean Connery in the movie, Medicine Man. Yet, behind this lurks a system that, at its worst, steals the Indian knowledge to benefit CEOs, stockholders and academic careers and reputations. The real goal of these powerful bio-prospectors is to target novel and active phytochemicals with medical applications, synthesize them in a laboratory and have them patented for subsequent drug manufacture and resulting profits. In this process, many active and beneficial plants have been found in the Shaman's medicine chest, but have been discarded when it was found that the active ingredients of the plant numbered too many to be synthesized into a patentable drug cost effectively. It doesn't matter how active or beneficial the plant was or how long the FDA process might take to patent and approve the new drug - if the bioprospector can't capitalize on it - the public will rarely hear about a newly discovered plant's benefits. The fact is, there is a lot of money at stake. In an article published in Economic Botany, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, an economist at Yale University, and Dr. Michael J. Balick, director of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Gardens, estimate the minimum number of pharmaceutical drugs potentially remaining to be extracted from the rainforests. It is staggering! They estimate that there are at least 328 new drugs that still await discovery in the rainforest with a potential value of $3-4 billion to a private pharmaceutical company and as much as $147 Billion to society as a whole.

While the Indigenous Indian shamans go about their daily lives caring for the well being of their tribe, thousands of miles away in US laboratories, the Shaman's rainforest medicines are being tested, synthesized, patented and submitted for FDA approval. Soon children with viral infections, adults with herpes, cancer patients and many others may benefit from new medicines from the Amazon Rainforest. But what will the Indigenous Tribes see of these wonderful new medicines? As corporations rush to patent indigenous medicinal knowledge, the originating Indigenous communities have received few, if any benefits.

Losing the Knowledge
The destruction of the rainforest has followed the pattern of seeing natural land and natural world peoples as resources to be used, and seeing wilderness as idle, empty and unproductive. Destruction of our rainforests is not only causing the extinction of plant and animal species, it is also is wiping out Indigenous Peoples which live in the rainforest. Obviously, rainforests are not idle land, nor are they uninhabited. Indigenous Peoples have developed technologies and resource use systems that have allowed them to live on the land, farming, hunting and gathering in a complex sustainable relationship with the forest. But when rainforests die, so do the Indigenous Peoples.

In 1500, there were an estimated six to nine million Indigenous People inhabiting the rainforests in Brazil. When Western and European cultures were drawn to Brazil's Amazon in the hopes of finding riches beyond comprehension and artifacts from civilizations that have long since expired with the passage of time, they left behind decimated cultures in their ravenous wake. By 1900 there were only one million Indigenous People left in Brazil's Amazon. Although the fabled Fountain of Youth was never discovered, many treasures in gold and gems were spirited away by the more successful invaders of the day and the Indigenous inhabitants of the rainforest bore the brunt of these marauding explorers and conquistadors.

Today there are less than 250,000 Indigenous People of Brazil surviving this catastrophe and still it continues. These surviving Indigenous People still demonstrate the remarkable diversity of the rainforest because they comprise 215 ethnic groups with 170 different languages. They live in 526 territories nationwide, which together comprise an area of 190 million acres... twice the size of California. About 188 million acres of this land is inside the Brazilian Amazon, in the states of Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Para, Mato Grosso, Maranhao, Rondonia, Roraima, and Tocantins. There may also be 50 or more indigenous groups still living in the depths of the rainforest that have never had contact with the outside world.

Throughout the rainforest, forest-dwelling peoples whose age-old traditions allow them to live in and off the forest without destroying it are losing out to cattle ranching, logging, hydroelectric projects, large-scale farms, mining, and colonization schemes. About half of the original Amazonian Tribes have already been completely destroyed. The greatest threat to Brazil's remaining tribal people, most of whom live in the Amazon Rainforest, is the invasion of their territory by these ranchers, miners, land speculators and the conflicts which follow. In Amazonia, thousands of peasants, rubber tappers, and Indigenous Tribes have been killed in the past decade in violent conflicts over forest resources and land.

As their homelands continue to be invaded and destroyed, rainforest people and their cultures are disappearing. When these Indigenous Peoples are lost forever, gone too is their empirical knowledge representing centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest plant and animal species. Very few tribes have been subjected to a complete ethnobotanical analysis of their plant knowledge and most medicine men and shamans remaining in the rainforests today are 70 years old or more. When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants. Each time a Rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.

THE SOLUTION... Profits without Plunder.
The problem and the solution of the destruction of the rainforest are both economic. Governments need money to service their debts, squatters and settlers need money to feed their families, and companies need to make profits. The simple fact is that the rainforest is being destroyed for the income and profits it yields - however fleeting. Money still makes the world go around... even in South America and even in the rainforest.

But this also means that if land owners, governments and those living in the rainforest today were given a viable economic reason NOT to destroy the rainforest, it could and would be saved. And this viable economic alternative DOES exist and it is working today. Many organizations have demonstrated that if the medicinal plants, fruits, nuts, oils and other resources like rubber, chocolate and chicle (used to make chewing gums), were harvested sustainably, rainforest land has much more economic value today and more long term income and profits than if just timber were harvested or if it were burned down for cattle or farming operations. In fact, the latest statistics prove that rainforest land converted to cattle operations yields the land owner $60 per acre and if timber is harvested, the land is worth $400 per acre. However, if these renewable and sustainable resources are harvested, the land will yield the land owner $2,400 per acre.This value provides an income not only today, but year after year - for generations. These sustainable resources are the true wealth of the Rainforest - not the trees.

This is no longer a theory. It is a fact and it is being implemented today. Just as importantly, to wild-harvest the wealth of sustainable rainforest resources effectively, local people and indigenous tribes must be employed. Today, entire communities and tribes earn 5 to 10 times more money in wild harvesting medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and oils than they can earn by chopping down the forest for subsistence crops. This much needed income source creates the awareness and economic incentive for this population in the rainforest to protect and preserve the forests for long term profits for themselves and their children and is an important solution in saving the rainforest from destruction.

When the timber is harvested for short term gain and profits, the medicinal plants, nuts, oils and other important sustainable resources which thrive in this delicate ecosystem are destroyed. The real solution to saving the rainforest is to make them see the forest AND the trees by creating a consumer demand and consumer markets for these sustainable rainforest products... markets that are larger and louder than today's tropical timber market.... markets which will put as much money in their pockets and government coffers as the timber companies do.... markets which will give them the economic incentive to protect their sustainable resources for long term profits rather than short term gain.

This is the only solution that makes a real impact and it can make a real difference. Each and every person here in America can take a part in this solution by helping to create this consumer market and demand for sustainable rainforest products. By purchasing renewable and sustainable rainforest products and resources and demanding sustainable harvesting of these resources utilizing local communities and indigenous tribes of the rainforests, we all can be part of the solution and the rainforests of the world and it's people can be saved.
This article was compiled and written by Leslie Taylor - Raintree Nutrition, to whom we all owe a great deal of thanks.

Please help us to save the Rainforests of the world. You kmow it makes sense!
Thank you for reading this, and for your support.

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national geographic news

2005-02-22T06:26:52Z

Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies

Hillary Mayell
for National Geographic News

February 18, 2005
Meat-eating has impacted the evolution of the human body, scientists reported today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Our fondness for a juicy steak triggered a number of adaptations over countless generations. For instance, our jaws have gotten smaller, and we have an improved ability to process cholesterol and fat.

Our taste for meat has also led us into some trouble—our teeth are too big for our downsized jaws and most of us need dental work.

"It's really amazing what we know now that we didn't know 15 or 20 years ago," said Mark Teaford, a professor at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Teaford helped organize a panel discussion on human diet from a number of perspectives:

• How did the ability to eat meat shape the evolution of humans?
• What can we learn about early humans from tooth shape?

Carnivorous humans go back a long way. Stone tools for butchering meat, and animal bones with corresponding cut marks on them, first appear in the fossil record about 2.5 million years ago.

How Did Meat-Eating Start?

Some early humans may have started eating meat as a way to survive within their own ecological niche.

Competition from other species may be a key element of natural selection that has molded anatomy and behavior, according to Craig B. Stanford, an ecologist at the University of Southern California (USC).

Stanford has spent years visiting the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda, Africa, studying the relationship between mountain gorillas and chimpanzees.

"It's the only forest where mountain gorillas and chimps both live," he said. "We're trying to understand the ecological relationship—do they compete for food, for nesting sites?"

The key difference between chimps and gorillas ecologically is that chimps eat meat and gorillas don't. A total herbivore is able to coexist with an omnivore because they have significantly different diets.

"From there we can extrapolate back to what two species of early humans may have done vis-à-vis each other two or three million years ago," Stanford said.

Better Fat Processors

When humans switched to meat-eating, they triggered a genetic change that enabled better processing of fats, said Stanford, who has worked extensively with gerontologist Caleb Finch of USC.

"We have an obsession today with fat and cholesterol because we can go to the market and stuff ourselves with it," Stanford said. "But as a species we are relatively immune to the harmful effects of fat and cholesterol. Compared to the great apes, we can handle a diet that's high in fat and cholesterol, and the great apes cannot.

"Even though we have all these problems in terms of heart disease as we get older, if you give a gorilla a diet that a meat-loving man might eat in Western society, that gorilla will die when it's in its twenties; a normal life span might be 50. They just can't handle that kind of diet."

Diet and Teeth

Tool-use no doubt helped early humans in butchering their dinners. But there is evidence that the advance to cooking and using knives and forks is leading to crooked teeth and facial dwarfing in humans.

Today it's relatively rare for someone to have perfectly straight teeth (without having been to the orthodontist). Our wisdom teeth don't have room to fit in the jaw and sometimes don't form at all, and the propensity to develop gum disease is on the increase.

"Virtually any mammalian jaw in the wild that you look at will be a perfect occlusion—a very nice Hollywood-style dentition," said Peter Lucas, the author of Dental Functional Morphology and a visiting professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "But when it comes to humans, the ideal occlusion [the way teeth fit together] is virtually never seen. It's really the only body part that regularly needs attention and surgery."

Lucas argues that the mechanical process of chewing, combined with the physical properties of foods in the diet, will drive tooth, jaw, and body size, particularly in human evolution.

Essentially, by cooking our food, thereby making it softer, we no longer need teeth big enough to chow down on really tough particles. By using knives and forks to cut food into smaller pieces, we no longer need a large enough jaw to cram in big hunks of food.

"We're evolving to eat mush," said Bernard Wood, a paleoanthropologist at George Washington University.

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Global Warming

2005-02-16T08:19:08Z

This last few days it surprise me to se the "new" news about global warming.
What these so called rulers of the world are doing with the Earth?
Unbelivable. especialy now they want to start making agreements for after 2012...what a joke.

But maybe its all part off the balance???

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2012 News Feb 2005

2005-02-14T12:18:27Z

2012 News Feb 2005

(from 2012: Dire Gnosis) www.diagnosis2012.co.uk

New on What's New : http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new8.htm

New info on Climate Change Around 3114 BC: The latest from Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson.

China and India Prepare for Himalayan UFO Landing in 2012: A series of articles in India Daily reveals strange goings-on in the Himalayas, and related development of anti-gravity technology.

Author's Reply to Riding the Wild Orb Review: Roger Jewell answers the critique.

New on 2012 Books: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/books.htm

Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars by David Flynn. "Topics include: The End of the Age, 2012 Catastrophism, Cydonia & Mars linked to the History of Freemasonry".
The Number of Infinity by A. K. Zander. A novel about an asteroid strike in 2012
Healing Immortal Self, Mind, Emotions, Body & Soul : Opening the Sacred Heart : Divine Love Transforming Consciousness, Healing All Afflictions; Purification of the World : 2011- 2012 AD by William J "Omega" (2002) Contents include: Transformation; Healing; Healing Self and Others; Meditation Methods; Prayers; How to Aid in Your Journey to Regain Human "Immortality"; Where is the Real "Fountain of Youth?"; Purification.
Comments on 2012 and Beyond: God Speaks to Humanity: Humanity May Die
by Phillip Palmer: Straydog got hold of a copy...was it worth it?

New on 2012 Events: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/events.htm

Crop Circle Conference: 9th April 2005, Belgium: New conference flyer linked. Speakers; Romaine Kunst (NL), Andreas Muller (GER), Janet Ossebard (NL), Allan Brown (UK) Martin Keitel (FIN)

7 forthcoming 2012 presentations in the UK by Geoff Stray April - Aug

New on Other Links: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/oth.htm

2 mystery books discovered online secondhand; a French book called 2012 - Insurrection by Liam O'Flaherty and from a secondhand bookseller in the Czech republic, Galakticka Transformace 2012 by "Jenkins Jo." Could this be Maya Cosmogenesis 2012?

New on 2012 Calendar: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/cal.htm

All links have been checked and updated, and some new ones added.

New on Maya Links & date Calculators: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/mlink.htm

All links have been checked and updated, and some new ones added, including Carol Cloudhart's Galactic Alchemy - a guide to the 13-day pulses of the Tzolkin in the genuine Q'iche count

Other News

John Lash (Dendera Zodiac /2012 theory, see http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/5.htm#dendera )has been in touch and points out that "a resume of my Dendera theory, written by myself, was published in Atlantis Blueprint, by Colin Wilson. I provided the summary at his request. The book came out in 2000." He is also developing a website at http://www.metahistory.org/

The Aztec crystal skull in the British museum has recently been denounced as a fake: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9005853 so has the Smithsonian skull, but Sha-na-Ra and Max have been pronounced genuine by the same testers. http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue10/ar10crystalskull.html

If you are interested in precession, check out the Sirius Research Group's site. Their page on the Maya is badly researched, with no references, but the Egyptian material is very interesting. They present the possibility that the precessional cycle does not actually exist as a slow rotation of the Earth's axis, but the phenomena we interpret as that movement actually represents the movement of our solar system around another centre - Sirius; includes feedback from astronomers. http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/

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Urgent call <<<

2005-01-19T00:02:34Z

rgent call from the Mayan elders of Guatemala 1/10/2004

Through the ancient techniques of divination and tools of prophecy, the
Mayan elders are calling forth to humanity at THIS TIME to pay closer
attention to the messages being sent forth by the mother earth and to
immediately take the actions they have been calling for, to unite in an
effort to bring balance again upon our planet. The recent destruction
that
manifested in Indonesia is predicted to now occur rapidly upon five
continents of the earth. This message is not meant to induce fear, to
the
contrary, it is a call for bravery and for action. The elders are
concerned
about what has been presented in their recent divinations and they call
to
all humanity to warn their leaders and to work very hard at a spiritu
level to prevent the impending destruction. This message, verified and
brought forth by various Mayan elders in Guatemala, is for all of
humanity.
The hurricanes in the US and the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
have
been warnings and we must now pay attention or the possibilities of
floods
in Europe, Los Angeles, earthquakes and other efforts of the mother
earth to
awaken us will manifest quickly.

There is a specific call for people around the world to join in prayer,
meditation or whatever method of spirituality one engages in to unite
on
January 18th at the time of their local sunset (approx 6:00PM). This
date
is (9) Keme according to the sacred Mayan Cholq'ij calendar(more info
on
calendar available at: http://www.sacredroad.org) and has the potential
for
protecting humanity from disaster.

There will be many major ceremonies in the Mayan communities for this
purpose. An open invitation is extended to humanity that wish to join
the
Mayan people for the Waxa'qib B'atz' ceremonies on February 12th in
Guatemala.
Again, this is a strong message, not meant to drive us to react in
fear, for
this will only negatively impact the level of destruction and our own
circumstance. This is the opportunity for humanity to rise to the
occasion
and come together along the strong lines that unite us and overcome the
obstacles that divide us.
Please distribute this message widely.

Message issued by Mayan elders in Guatemala and delivered via:
Carlos Barrios, Mayan Ajq'ij, Antigua, Guatemala
Adam Rubel, Co-Director, Saq' Be': Organization for Mayan and
Indigenous
Spiritual Studies, http://www.sacredroad.org

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galactic trading cards

2004-12-23T16:14:20Z

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New Maps of Hyperspace

2004-11-22T05:39:11Z

New Maps of Hyperspace

by Terence McKenna

A talk given at the invitation of Ruth and Arthur Young of the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness, 1984. (Included as written word because this edited transcription appears in print as part of his book The Archaic Revival - dimitri)

In James Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus tells us, "History is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken." I would turn this around and say that history is what we are trying to escape from into dream. The dream is eschatological. The dream is zero time and outside of history. We wish to escape into the dream. Escape is a key thing charged against those who would experiment with plant hallucinogens. The people who make this charge hardly dare face the degree to which hallucinogens are escapist. Escape. Escape from the planet, from death, from habit, and from the problem, if possible, of the Unspeakable.

If one leaves aside the last three hundred years of historical experience as it unfolded in Europe and America, and examines the phenomenon of death and the doctrine of the soul in all its ramifications - Neoplatonic, Christian, dynastic-Egyptian, and so on, one finds repeatedly the idea that there is a light body, an entelechy that is somehow mixed up with the body during life and at death is involved in a crisis in which these two portions separate. One part loses its raison d'etre and falls into dissolution; metabolism stops. The other part goes we know not where. Perhaps nowhere if one believes it does not exist; but then one has the problem of trying to explain life. And, though science makes great claims and has done well at explaining simple atomic systems, the idea that science can make any statement about what life is or where it comes from is currently preposterous.

Science has nothing to say about how one can decide to close one's hand into a fist, and yet it happens. This is utterly outside the realm of scientific explanation because what we see in that phenomenon is mind as a first cause. It is a example of telekinesis: matter is caused by mind to move. So we need not fear the sneers of science in the matter of the fate or origin of the soul. My probe into this area has always been the psychedelic experience, but recently I have been investigating dreams, because dreams are a much more generalized form of experience of the hyperdimension in which life and mind seem to be embedded.

Looking at what people with shamanic traditions say about dreams, one comes to the realization that for these people dream reality is experientially a parallel continuum. The shaman accesses this continuum with hallucinogens as well as with other techniques, but most effectively with hallucinogens. Everyone else accesses it through dreams. Freud's idea about dreams was that they were what he called "day-residues," and that one could trace the content of a dream down to a distortion of something that happened during waking time.

I suggest that it is much more useful to try to make a geometric model of consciousness, to take seriously the idea of a parallel continuum, and to say that the mind and the body are embedded in the dream and the dream is a higher-order spatial dimension. In sleep, one is released into the real world, of which the world of waking is only the surface in a very literal geometric sense. There is a plenum - recent experiments in quantum physics tend to back this up - a holographic plenum of information. All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere. Information stands outside of time in a kind of eternity - an eternity that does not have a temporal existence about which one may say, "It always existed." It does not have temporal duration of any sort. It is eternity. We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism.

At death, the thing that casts the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases. Material form breaks down; it ceases to be a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustained against entropy by cycling material in, extracting energy, and expelling waste. But the form that ordered it is not affected. These declarative statements are made from the point of view of the shamanic tradition, which touches all higher religions. Both the psychedelic dream state and the waking psychedelic state acquire great import because they reveal to life a task: to become familiar with this dimension that is causing being, in order to be familiar with it at the moment of passing from life.

The metaphor of a vehicle - an after-death vehicle, an astral body - is used by several traditions. Shamanism and certain yogas, including Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. One will recognize what is happening. One will know what to do and one will make a clean break. Yet there does seem to be the possibility of a problem in dying. It is not the case that one is condemned to eternal life. One can muff it through ignorance.

Apparently at the moment of death there is a kind of separation, like birth - the metaphor is trivial, but perfect. There is a possibility of damage or of incorrect activity. The English poet-mystic William Blake said that as one starts into the spiral there is the possibility of falling from the golden track into eternal death. Yet it is only a crisis of a moment - a crisis of passage - and the whole purpose of shamanism and of life correctly lived is to strengthen the soul and to strengthen the ego's relationship to the soul so that this passage can be cleanly made. This is the traditional position.

I want to include an abyss in this model - one less familiar to rationalists, but familiar to us all one level deeper in the psyche as inheritors of the Judeo-Christian culture. That is the idea that the world will end, that there will be a final time, that there is not only the crisis of the death of the individual but also the crisis of death in the history of the species.

What this seems to be about is that from the time of the awareness until the resolution of the apocalyptic potential, there are roughly one hundred thousand years. In biological time, this is only a moment, yet it is ten times the entire span of history. In that period, everything hangs in the balance, because it is a mad rush from hominid to starflight. In the leap across those one hundred thousand years, energies are released, religions are shot off like sparks, philosophies evolve and die, science arises, magic arises, all of these concerns that control power with greater and lesser degrees of ethical constancy appear. Ever present is the possibility of aborting the species' transformation into a hyperspatial entelechy.

We are now, there can be no doubt, in the final historical seconds of that crisis - a crisis that involves the end of history, our departure from the planet, the triumph over death, and the release of the individual from the body. We are, in fact, closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter - the freeing of life from the dark chrysalis of matter. The old metaphor of psyche as the caterpillar transformed by metamorphosis is a specieswide analogy. We must undergo a metamorphosis in order to survive the momentum of the historical forces already set in motion.

Evolutionary biologists consider humans to be an unevolving species. Some time in the last fifty thousand years, with the invention of culture, the biological evolution of humans ceased and evolution became an epigenetic, cultural phenomenon. Tools, languages, and philosophies began to evolve, but the human somatotype remained the same. Hence, physically, we are very much like people of a long time ago. But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space. The body can become an internalized holographic object embedded in a solid-state, hyperdimensional matrix that is eternal, so that we each wander through a true Elysium.

This is a kind of Islamic paradise in which one is free to experience all the pleasures of the flesh provided one realizes that one is a projection of a holographic solid-state matrix that is microminiaturized, superconducting, and nowhere to be found: it is part of the plenum. All technological history is about producing prototypes of this situation with greater and greater closure toward the ideal, so that airplanes, automobiles, space shuttles, space colonies, starships of the nuts-and-bolts, speed-of-light type are, as Mircea Eliade said, "self-transforming images of flight that speak volumes about man's aspiration to self-transcendence."

Our wish, our salvation, and our only hope is to end the historical crisis by becoming the alien, by ending alienation, by recognizing the alien as the Self, in fact - recognizing the alien as an Overmind that holds all the physical laws of the planet intact in the same way that one holds an idea intact in one's thoughts. The givens that are thought to be writ in adamantine are actually merely the moods of the Goddess, whose reflection we happen to be. The whole meaning of human history lies in recovering this piece of lost information so that man may be dirigible or, to paraphrase James Joyce's Finnegans Wake on Moicane, the red light district of Dublin: "Here in Moicane we flop on the seamy side, but up n'ent, prospector, you sprout all your worth and you woof your wings, so if you want to be Phoenixed, come and be parked." It is that simple, you see, but it takes courage to be parked when the Grim Reaper draws near. "A blessing in disguise," Joyce calls him.

What psychedelics encourage, and where I hope attention will focus once hallucinogens are culturally integrated to the point where large groups of people can plan research programs without fear of persecution, is the modeling of the after-death state. Psychedelics may do more than model this state; they may reveal the nature of it. Psychedelics will show us that the modalities of appearance and understanding can be shifted so that we can know mind within the context of the One Mind. The One Mind contains all experiences of the Other. There is no dichotomy between the Newtonian universe, deployed through light-years of three-dimensional universe, and the interior mental universe. They are adumbrations of the same thing.

We perceive them as unresolvable dualisms because of the low quality of the code we customarily use. The language we use to discuss this problem has built-in dualisms. This is a problem of language. All codes have relative code qualities, except the Logos. The Logos is perfect and, therefore, partakes of no quality other than tiself. I am here using the word Logos in the sense in which Philo Judaeus uses it - that of the Divine Reason that embraces the arhcetypal complex of Platonic ideas that serve as the models of creation. As long as one maps with something other than the Logos, there will be problems of code quality. The dualism built into our language makes the death of the species and the death of the individual appear to be opposed things.

Likewise, the scenarios that biology has created through examining the physical universe versus the angel- and demon-haunted worlds that depth psychology is reporting is also a dichotomy. The psychedelic experience acts to resolve this dichotomy. All that is needed to go beyond an academic understanding of the plant hallucinogens is the experience of the tryptamine- induced ecstasy. The dimethyltryptamine (DMT) molecule has the unique property of releasing the structured ego into the Overself. Each person who has that experience undergoes a mini-apocalypse, a mini-entry and mapping into hyperspace. For society to focus in this direction, nothing is necessary except for this experience to become an object of general concern.

This is not to suggest that everyone should experiment with mushrooms or other naturally occurring sources of psychoactive tryptamines. We should try to assimilate and integrate the psychedelic experience since it is a plane of experience that is directly accessible to each of us. The role that we play in relationship determines how we will present ourselves in that final, intimated transformation. In other words, in this notion there is a kind of teleological bias; there is abelief that there is a hyperobject called the Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience of this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

One way of thinking of this is to suppose that the waking world and the world of the dream have begun to merge so that in a certain sense the school of UFO criticism that has said flying sources are hallucinations was correct in that the laws that operate in the dream, the laws that operate in hyperspace, can at times operate in three-dimensional space when the barrier between the two modes becomes weak. Then one gets these curious experiences, sometimes called psychotic breaks, that always have a tremendous impact on the experient because there seems to be an exterior component that could not possibly be subjective. At such times coincidences begin to build and build until one must finally admit that one does not know what is going on. Nevertheless, it is preposterous to claim that this is a psychological phenomenon, because there are accompanying changes in the external world. Jung called this synchronicity and made a psychological model of it, but it is really an alternative physics beginning to impinge on local reality.

The alternative physics is a physics of light. Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever. There is an experience of time zero. So if one imagines for a moment oneself to be made of light, or in possession of a vehicle that can move at the speed of light, one can traverse from any point in the universe to any other with a subjective experience of time zero. This means that one crosses to Alpha Centauri in time zero, but the amount of time that has passed in the relativistic universe is four and a half years. But if one moves very great distances, if one crosses two hundred and fifty thousand light-years to Andromeda, one would still have a subjective experience of time zero.

The only experience of time that one can have is of a subjective time that is created by one's own mental processes, but in relationship to the Newtonian universe there is no time whatsoever. One exists in eternity, one has become eternal, the universe is aging at a staggering rae all around one in this situation, but that is perceived as a fact of this universe - the way we perceive Newtonian physics as a fact of this universe. One has transited into the eternal mode. One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

I believe that this is what technology pushes toward. There is no contradiction between ecological balance and space migration, between hypertechnology and radical ecology. These issues are red herrings; the real historical entity that is becoming imminent is the human soul. The monkey body has served to carry us to this moment of release, and it will always serve as a focus of self-image, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. This is what is meant by the return to the Father, the transcendence of physis, the rising out of the Gnostic universal prison of iron that traps the light: nothing less than the transformation of our species.

Very shortly an acceleration of this phenomenon will take place in the form of space exploration and space colonies. The coral-reef-like animal called Man that has extruded technology over the surface of the earth will be freed from the constraints of anything but the imagination and the limitations of materials. It has been suggested that the earlioest space colonies include efforts to duplicate the idyllic ecosystem of Hawaii as an ideal. These exercises in ecological understanding will prove we know what we are doing. However, as soon as this understanding is under control we will be released into the realm of art. This is what we have always striven for. We will make our world - all of our worlds - and the world we came from will be maintained as a garden. What Eliade discussed as metaphors of self-transforming flight will be realized shortly in the technology of space colonization.

The transition from earth to space will be a staggeringly tight genetic filter, a much tighter filter than any previous frontier has ever been, including the genetic and demographic filter represented by the colonization of the New World. It has been said that the vitality of the Americas is due to the fact that only the dreamers and the pioneers and the fanatics made the trip across. This will be even more true of the transition to space. The technological conquest of space will set the stage; then, for the internalization of that metaphor, it will bring the conquest of inner space and the collapse of the state vectors associated with this technology deployed in Newtonian space. Then the human species will have become more than dirigible.

A technology that would internalize the body and exteriorize the soul will develop parallel to the move to space. The Invisible Landscape, a book by my brother and myself, made an effort to short-circuit that chronology and, in a certain sense, to force the issue. It is the story, or rather it is the intellectual underpinnings of the story, of an expedition to the Amazon by my brother and myself and several other people in 1971. During that expedition, my brother formulated an idea that involved using harmine and harmaline, compounds that occur in Banisteriopsis caapi, the woody vine that is the basis for ayahuasca. We undertook an effor to use harmine in conjunction with the human voice in what we called "the experiment at La Chorrera." It was an effort to use sound to charge the molecular structure of harmine molecules metabolizing in the body in such a way that they would bind preferentially and permanently with endogenous molecular structures.

Our candidate at the time was neural DNA, though Frank Barr, a researcher into the properties of brain melanin, has made a convincing case that there is as great a likelihood that harmine acts by binding with melanin bodies. In either case, the pharmacology involves binding with a molecular site where information is stored, and this information is then broadcast in such a way that one begins to get a mental readout on the structure of the soul. Our experiment was an effort to use a kind of shamanic technology to bell the cat, if you will, to hang a superconducting, telemetric device on the Overmind so that there would be a continuous readout of information from that dimension. The success or failure of this attempt may be judged for oneself.

The first half of the book describes the theoretical underpinnings of the experiment. The second half describes the theory of the structure of time that derived from the bizarre mental states that followed the experiment. I do not claim that we succeeded, only that our theory of what happened is better than any theory proposed by critics. Whether we succeeded or not, this style of thinking points the way. For example, when I speak of the technology of building a starship, I imagine it will be done with voltages far below the voltage of a common flashlight battery. This is, after all, where the most interesting phenomena go on in nature. Thought is that kind of phenomenon; metabolism is that kind of phenomenon.

A new science that places the psychedelic experience at the center of its program of investigation should move toward a practical realization of this goal - the goal of eliminating the barrier between the ego and the Overself so that the ego can perceive itself as an expression of the Overself. Then the anxiety of facing a tremendous biological crisis in the form of the ecocrises, and the crisis of limitation in physical space forced upon us by our planet- bound situation, can be obviated by cultivating the soul and by practicing a new shamanism using tryptamine-containing plants.

Psilocybin is the most commonly available and experientially accessible of these compounds. Therefore my plea to scientists, administrators, and politicians who may read these words is this: look again at psilocybin, do not confuse it with the other psychedelics, and realize that it is a phenomenon unto itself with an enormous potential for transforming human beings - not simply transforming the people who take it, but transforming society in the way that an art movement, a mathematical understanding, or a scientific breakthrough transforms society. It holds the possibility of transforming the entire species simply by virtue of the information that comes through it. Psilocybin is a source of gnosis, and the voice of gnosis has been silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years.

When the Franciscans and the Dominicans arrived in Mexico in the sixteenth century, they immediately set about stamping out the mushroom religion. The Indians called it teonanacatl, "the flesh of the gods." The Catholic church had a monopoly on theophagia and was not pleased by this particular approach to what was going on. Now, four hundred years after that initial contact, I suggest that Eros, which retreated from Europe with the rise of Christianity, retreated to the mountains of the Sierra Mazateca. Finally, pushed into seclusion there, it now reemerges in Western consciousness.

Our institutions, our epistemologies are bankrupt and exhausted; we must start anew and hope that with the help of shamanically inspired personalities, we can cultivate this ancient mystery once again. The Logos can be unleashed, and the voice that spoke to Plato and Parmenides and Heraclitus can speak again in the minds of modern people. When it does, the alienation will be ended because we will have become the alien. This is the promise that is held out; it may seem to some a nightmare vision, but all historical changes of immense magnitude have a charged emotional quality. They propel people into a completely new world.

I believe that this work must be done using hallucinogens. Traditionally it has been thought that there were many paths to spiritual advancement. In this matter I must fall back on personal experience. I have not had good results with any other techniques. I spent time in India, practiced yoga, visited among the various rishis, roshis, geysheys, and gurus that Asia had to offer, and I believe they must be talking about something so pale and removed from closure with the full tryptamine ecstasy that I don't really know what to make of them and their wan hierophanies.

Tantra claims to be another approach. Tantra means "the short-cut path," and certainly it might be on the right track. Sexuality, orgasm, these things do have tryptaminelike qualities to them, but the difference between psilocybin and all other hallucinogens is information - immense amounts of information.

LSD seemed somehow to be largely related to the structure of the personality. Often it seemed to me the visions were merely geometric patterns unless synergized by another compound. The classic psychedelic experience that was written about by Aldous Huxley was two hundred micrograms of LSD and thirty milligrams of mescaline. That combination delivers a visionary experience rather than an experience of hallucinations. In my opinion the unique quality of psilocybin is that it reveals not colored lights and moving grids, but places - jungles, cities, machines, books, architectonic forms of incredible complexity. There is no possibility that this could be construed as neurological noise of any sort. It is, in factm the most highly ordered visual information that one can experience, much more highly ordered than the normal waking vision.

That's why it's very hard with psychedelic compounds to bring back information. These things are hard to English because it is like trying to make a three-dimensional rendering of a fourth-dimensional object. Only through the medium of sight can the true modality of this Logos be perceived. That is why it is so interesting that psilocybin and ayahuasca - the aboriginal tryptamine-containing brew - both produce a telepathic experience and a shared state of mind. The unfolding group hallucination is shared in complete silence. It's hard to prove this to a scientist, but if several people share such an experience, one person can describe it and then cease the monologue and another person may then take it up. Everyone is seeing the same thing! It is the quality of being complex visual information that makes the Logos a vision of a truth that cannot be told.

The information thus imparted is not, however, merely restricted to the mode of seeing. The Logos is capable of going from a thing heard to a thing seen, without ever crossing through a discernible transition point. This seems a logical impossibility; yet when one actually has the experience, one sees - aha! - it is as though thought that is heard does become something seen. The thought that is heard becomes more and more intense until, finally, its intensity is such that, with no transition, one is now beholding it in three-dimensional, visual space. One commands it. This is very typical of psilocybin.

Naturally, whenever a compound is introduced into the body, one must exercise caution and be well informed with regard to possible side effects. Professional psychedelic investigators are aware of these factors and freely acknowledge that the obligation to be well informed is of primary importance.

Speaking for myself, let me say that I am not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each visionary experience. I have never lost my respect for these dimensions. Dread is one of the emotions that I feel as I approach the experience. Psychedelic work is like sailing out onto a dark ocean in a little skiff. One may view the moon rising serenely over the calm black water, or something the size of a freight train may roar right through the scene and leave one clinging at an oar.

The dialogue with the other is what makes repetition of these experiences seem worthwhile. The mushroom speaks to you when you speak to it. In the introduction to the book that my brother and I wrote (under pseudonyms) called Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide, there is a mushroom monologue that goes: "I am old, fifty times older than thought in your species, and I came from the stars." Sometimes it's very human. My approach to it is Hasidic. I rave at it; it raves at me. We argue about what it is going to cough up and what it isn't. I say, "Well, look, I'm the propagator, you can't hold back on me," and it says, "But if I showed you the flying saucer for five minutes, you would figure out how it works," and I say, "Well, come through." It has many manifestations. Sometimes it's like Dorothy of Oz; sometimes it's like a very Talmudic sort of pawnbroker. I asked it once, "What are you doing on Earth?" It said, "Listen, if you're a mushroom, you live cheap; besides, I'm telling you, this was a very nice neighborhood until the monkeys got out of control."

"Monkeys out of control:" that is the mushroom voice's view of history. To us, history is something very different. History is the shock wave of eschatology. In other words, we are living in a very unique moment, ten or twenty thousand years long, where an immense transition is happening. The object at the end of and beyond history is the human species fused into eternal tantric union with the superconducting Overmind/UFO. It is that mystery that casts its shadow back through time. All religion, all philosophy, all wars, pogroms, and persecutions happen because people do not get the message right. There is both the forward-flowing casuistry of being, causal determinism, and the interference pattern that is formed against that by the backward-flowing fact of this eschatological hyperobject throwing its shadow across the temporal landscape. We exist, yet there is a great deal of noise. This situation called history is totally unique; it will last only a moment, it began a moment ago. In that moment there is a tremendous burst of static as the monkey goes to godhood, as the final eschatological object mitigates and transforms the forward flow of entropic circumstance.

Life is central to the career of organization in matter. I reject the idea that we have been shunted onto a siding called organic existence and that our actual place is in eternity. This mode of existence is an important part of the cycle. It is filter. There is the possibility of extinction, the possibility of falling into physis forever, and so in that sense the metaphor of the fall is valid. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules. The noetic enterprise is a primary obligation toward being. Our salvation is linked to it. Not everyone has to read alchemical texts or study superconducting biomolecules to make the transition. Most people make it naively by thinking clearly about the present at hand, but we intellectuals are trapped in a world of too much information. Innocence is gone for us. We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient.

We have to understand. Whitehead said, "Understanding is the apperception of pattern as such;" to fear death is to misunderstand life. Cognitive activity is the defining act of humanness. Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. We humans may be released into a realm of pure self-engineering. The imagination is everything. This was Blake's perception. This is where we came from. This is where we are going. And it is only to be approached through cognitive activity.

Time is the notion that gives ideas such as these their power, for they imply a new conception of time. During the experiment at La Chorrera, the Logos demonstrated that time is not simply a homogeneous medium where things occur, but a fluctuating density of probability. Though science can sometimes tell us what can happen and what cannot happen, we have no theory that explains why, out of everything that could happen, certain things undergo what Whitehead called "the formality of actually occurring." This was what the Logos sought to explain, why out of all the myriad things that could happen, certain things undergo the formality of occurring. It is because there is a modular hierarchy of waves of temporal conditioning, or temporal density. A certain event, rated highly improbable, is more probable at some moments than at others.

Taking that simple perception and being led by the Logos, I was able to construct a fractal model of time that can be programmed on a computer and that gives a map of the ingression of what I call "novelty" - the ingression of novelty into time. As a general rule, novelty is obviously increasing. It has been since the very beginning of the universe. Immediately following the Big Bang there was only the possibility of nuclear interaction, and then, as temperatures fell below the bond strength of the nucleus, atomic systems could be formed. Still later, as temperatures fell further, molecular systems appeared. Then much later, life became possible; then very complex life forms evolved, thought became possible, culture was invented. The invention of printing and electronic information transfer occurred.

What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called "concrescence," a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The "autopoetic lapis," the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here to classical millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of the rate at which change is accelerating. From the way the gyre is tightening, I predict that concrescence will occur soon - around 2012 A.D. It will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination.

All these images - the starship, the space colony, the lapis - are precursory images. They follow naturally from the idea that history is the shock wave of eschatology. As closes distance with the eschatological object, the reflections it is throwing off resemble more and more the thing itself. In the final moment the Unspeakable stands revealed. There are no more reflections of the Mystery. The Mystery in all its nakedness is seen, and nothing else exists. But what it is, decency can safely scarcely hint; nevertheless, it is the crowning joy of futurism to seek anticipation of it.

Source: Terence McKenna Land
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

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PRAYING PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND!!!!!

2004-11-07T05:44:01Z

What can we do to promote peace in the world? Are we waiting for someone to do it for us? Are we prepared to realize that it is up to us NOW?!!!

PRAYING PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND!!!!!

On November 13th hundreds of Spiritual Peacemakers will come to The Holy Land to focus their prayers of peace. Please join us wherever you are. No president or leader of any country can replace the power we have within our hearts, and this is an opportunity to demonstrate that power.

As tensions in the world continue to rise and the death tolls in Iraq, Israel and other places grow, we are in need of thousands of spiritual peacemakers to join together for a powerful prayer vigil. On Saturday, November 13th at 1:00pm Eastern (New York time) we will hold a Global Peace Vigil to help dissolve the thought forms that lead to war. We will work from the inside out to realize the Peaceful World we all hold in our hearts.

I will be in Israel with hundreds of spiritual peacemakers, offering prayers and ceremonies of peace to anchor this energy for the world. But we need your prayers to create more momentum. In the past we've shown that when millions of people focus their prayers of peace as one, the world changes almost instantaneously. Peace vigils in Iraq, Northern Ireland, the Balkans and so many other places have demonstrated one fact: We have the power to change the world by changing our minds about the world. If not now, then when? As Gandhi has said "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

After our peace vigil last year in Israel (the Great Experiment III) reports showed a huge drop in arrests that day, fewer hospital admissions and the highest vibrational frequency ever recorded at Neve Shalom. Together we can recreate that pattern, then maintain it through the energy of the peace we know already exists.

There is no need to wait to see who the next president of the US will be. Whatever the result, it is still up to us. The one thing we have learned is that no one will do this for us.

Imagine thousands of people breathing together, praying together, and creating peace together at the same moment. That is our goal, and we hope you will join us.

More details will follow. Please send this email to everyone on your personal list. Together we will change the world and realize the peace that exists within our hearts.

In Peace,
James Twyman

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From Votan: Death of America ~ PAN Opportunity

2004-11-06T21:08:01Z

Death of America: Four More Years of the Harrowing of Hell
The Great Opportunity of Planet Art Network
Official Letter to PAN from the Foundation for the Law of Time

“You never change things by fighting the existing system. To change
something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. ”R.
Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

“We created them (humans), and endowed their limbs and joints with
strength. And when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a
complete change. ”Quran 76:28

“Where with great wisdom a seed is sown. ”
Vinal 6, 0 Tzec, 8 Storm, Self-existing 17, 12 Storm Year

The Day 8 Storm saw the reelection of George W Bush. This day, the same as
the first year of the Harrowing of Hell (2000-2001) which saw the first
election of George W. Bush, means that the American people have selected
another four years of the Harrowing of Hell. Another four years of the
Harrowing of Hell is the Death of America. As goes America, so goes the
world. Another four year cycle dominated by the War on Terrorism means
that there will be no more solutions coming from the Old Order. The only
solution is to build a new model of reality, an alternative planet. It is
important to understand that democracy as we have to come to know it is
dead. Knowing and accepting that will conserve energy for what lies ahead.

At the same time this is the Great Opportunity of the Planet Art Network.
But we ’d better get serious now. The complete change is in the turnover to
the 13 Moon/28-day calendar. The new human is homo noosphericus. The Plan
is in our hands. The change already began 12 Storm and will be complete 12
Hand, Rhythmic 9-December 21, 2012. There is more than enough work for
everyone. Just as Marxism collapsed after the Berlin Wall came down, so
now democracy is collapsed with George W. Bush ’s triumph. That means we
have four years to get ready - the four year Cycle of Deconstruction is
now occurring. It is time to put the Calendar Change Peace Plan into
effect in our lives. Because in 2008 the world will be wondering where to
go next - and only four years then 'til 2012! That ’s when the PAN
Reconstruction Program has to be ready, but it will only be ready if we
work hard the next four years at deconstructing this reality by building
the new model.

The Foundation for the Law of Time has a few thoughts about putting the
first phase of the Plan into effect. First of all, if you ’ve been putting
energy into making the Old System work, or think that democracy is worth
anything it is time to alter your belief system in a fully positive and
alternative direction. This is the bottom line attitudinal shift we are
all called upon to make. Pull your energy out of the old now and put it
into forming the PAN World Council. Set up a meeting soon - not in
America, for sure. Establish your councils and get to work! The following
areas come to mind as worthy of focus in building the New Model:

New Time self-education programs. In-house PAN education groups. Seminars
designed to draw in more and more of the people disaffected by the old
order, as well as outreach to new bioregions.

New Time Earth Family-based community. Most of us are still in urban areas
so begin your inner city community projects. Cooperative values are all
important now. Let people know who you are and - why.

Self-sustaining garden communities. There are still only a few of these.
Go to those that exist, learn what they are doing and then go and start
your own.

Develop a PAN Public Information Council both for putting together PAN
perspectives on global issues, and for gathering information on major
world issues - environment, war, poverty.

VERY IMPORTANT: go to Drunvalo Melchizedek's web site,
www.spiritofmaat.com and check out his article on global warming. It is
absolutely MUST reading and you will see that by 2008, it ’s not just the
War on Terror that will be changing the world. We really do have to be
prepared. We will try to make available his article, “Dry Ice: Global
Warming Revealed “which details the truth about the melting ice caps, the
cooling gulf stream and what is already in motion - from scientific
sources, including the Pentagon.

Investigate the Old Order - especially the UN, environmental agencies and
the media. Look for disillusioned leadership. Get them to the PAN point of
view. See how they can help envision a peaceful transition of old
institutional structures into a New Time society by 2008.

Spread the Banner of Peace! PAN is Peace through Culture. Now is the time
to see this Banner proliferate. It belongs to no nation. It is the circle
of unity. It dissolves all boundaries. It is the sign of Active Peace.
Make your Banners of Peace visible in your communities. Put them in your
windows.

Find receptive musicians of every kind and give them the PAN/Thirteen Moon
Vision. Help get ready major concerts on the Days Out of Time, and a BIG
BLAST World New Time Music Festival for the inauguration of the Blue
Electric Storm - 2008.

Read The Art Planet Chronicles. It really is all about this time, and
kicking off that Rainbow Bridge in 2012..
www.lawoftime.org/content/A...lanet-Chronicles.pdf

Join Jimmy! On Overtone Moon, Self-Existing 27, (November 13), James
Twyman will be hosting a gathering of spiritual peace makers in Israel. He
is calling for a global peace meditation scheduled for 1 PM EST(New York).
Let ’s begin to wire the noosphere for peace! It ’s our beliefs that make it
so!

And remember:

Everyone ’s an artist looking for an outlet.
Everyone ’s a healer trying to make it whole.
Everyone ’s a lover looking for a cause.
Everyone ’s a leader sitting on the goal.
The skies are turning crimson, the seas are riding high
The prophecies are coming round, it ’s now - it ’s do or die ...
Look! The Prophecies have come around, the future couldn ’t wait.
it ’s up to you to make it true, to break the seal on heaven ’s gate ...
Everyone ’s an artist making real the endless song.
Everyone ’s a healer knowing lights the right for wrong.
Everyone ’s a lover making every moment count.
Everyone ’s a leader drinking from the sacred fount.
Yes, everyone ’s an artist, and the outlet's through your heart.
Yes, everyone ’s a healer ending war by making art!

May this be the beginning of a new dialogue between PAN and the
Foundation for the Law of Time. Please note that our PAN Liaison is Four
Dog/Tim Tussing.

Valum Votan for the Foundation for the Law of Time

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Boom tribe

2004-09-17T22:04:19Z

today and after some considerations i decide to form a new tribe
boom tribe
for people that went ,for people that wanted to go ,for people that love boom festival

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Color Therapy

2004-06-20T03:00:21Z

Color Therapy

Chromotherapy is a method of treatment of diseases by color. It is
best used as a supportive therapy along with other natural methods of
preserving health such as correct diet, adequate rest and relaxation,
exercise, yogic asanas and so on. According to practitioners of
chromotherapy, the cause of any disease can be traced to the lack of
a particular color in the system. Color therapy is a technique of
restoring imbalance by means of applying color to the body. It was a
popular method of cure even in ancient times.

Some 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras applied color light therapeutically
and `color halls' were used for healing inancient Egypt, China and
India.The pioneer of modern color therapy was Niels Finsen of
Denmark. Following the discovery, in 1877, of the bactericidal action
of solar ultra-violet energy,Finsen studied the possibility of
assisting the healing of wounds with visible light. He subsequently
used red light to inhibit the formation of smallpox scars and, in
1896, founded a Light Institute (now the Finsen Institute of
Copenhagen) for the phototreatment of tuberculosis.

In 1932, Gerrard and Hessay, two Californian psychologists,
scientifically established that blue light had a calming effect and
red a stimulating power on human beings. Blue and red colors are
considered at the two extremes with yellow representing the midpoint.
These are also the three principal colors in a rainbow.

Every substance on earth contains color. Even the rays cast on earth
by celestial bodies contain color in the form of white light. The
rays of the sun contain seven different colors - violet, indigo,
blue, green, yellow, orange and red. These are natural colors which
are highly beneficial to the maintenance of health and for healing
diseases.

According to Dr. Babbit, a well-known authority on
chromotherapy, "sunlight is the principal curative agent in nature's
laboratory and where light cannot enter, disease does. Chlorosis,
anaemia, leukaemia, emaciation, muscular debility, degeneration of
heart and liver, dropsical effusion, softening of bones,nervous
excitability, physical deformity, stunted growth and consumption are
the result of excluding oneself from the beneficial effects of
sunlight.

"Sunlight plays an important role in the recovery from chronic
diseases. Judicious use of sunlight can be part of the curing process
in almost every affliction. The rays of the sun improve digestion and
nutrition, quicken blood and lymph circulation and increase the
elimination of impurities through the skin.

In a study at the New England State Hospital in the United States, 25
members of staff with normal blood pressure were bathed in blue light
for half an hour. It resulted in universal fall in blood
pressure. The blood pressure rose when red light was applied.

The Color Wheel

Red Energy is governed by the spine or the Root Chakra. The power
center is closely grounded by earth, is outgoing, and portrays a
positive attitude. The Root Chakra must be grounded. Fatigue, fear,
and anxiety are often caused by the missing contact with the earth
reality.The Root Chakra - energizes the feet, legs, tailbone, vagina,
urinary organs, and adrenaline glands. This energy -- gives power to
the strong life qualities of courage, self-confidence, security,
positive love, and will power. In using Red - you
are striving for balance. This is the energy you need to help the
chakras to function in accordance with the others.

Red may help when:
*you need courage and self-confidence
*are anemic
*feel tired or indisposed
*have poor blood circulation
*you are cold
*need renewed energy.

Yellow : Associated with joy and happiness, yellow is laxative and
diuretic. It is a stimulant to the brain, the liver and the spleen.
It is also effective in the treatment of diabetes, indigestion,
kidney and liver disorders, constipation, eye and throat infections,
syphillis and impotence. Yellow Energy is governed by the Solar
Plexus Chakra. This is often referred to as the brain of the nervous
system and is the most critical point of all vitalization points in
our body. The Solar Plexus Chakra - when it is
balanced we should not suffer from ulcers, gall stones, catarrh of
the large intestine or diabetes. This energy -- gives power for
digestion, constipation, flatulence in the intestine, liver problems,
diabetes, and skin problems. Yellow energy may help cleanse the pores
of the skin and is a great brain stimulant. In using yellow -- it
allows clarity of thought. It gives good ideas and awareness. It has
a powerful effect on the nervous system and assists the left brain in
operation. Yellow energy is good for children in that it enhances
their ability to perceive and understand.

Yellow may help when:
you feel nervous or tired.
*you are sad.
*you have parasites
*skin problems
*wieght problems
*suffer from ulcers
*poor digestion.

Orange: Symbolic of prosperity and pride, orange is useful for
stimulating blood supply and energising the nerves. It is beneficial
in the treatment of kidney and gall stones, hernia and appendicitis.
It is also used to stimulate the milk producing action of breasts
after childbirth. Orange Energy is governed by the Spleen Chakra.
Orange is the best stimulant, helping us in times of depression,
loneliness, and boredom. It is the best emotional stimulant. Joy
comes from orange energy. Orange has the love from red and the
wisdom from yellow. It strengthens confidence and allows
independence. The Spleen Chakra - gives energy to the bronchia, chest
discomfort, disturbances in the spleen, kidneys, stomach, gall
stones. It increase the intake of oxygen, helps lungs, releases
flatulence from the stomach. This energy -- gives power to remove
suppression and inhibitions. It allows you to create ideas and give
courage and strength. In using orange -- you can learn to
understand how the stomach tells us about our physical situations. If
the Spleen Chakra is out of balance, our stomach is usually the first
thing to warn us. You may have a nervous stomach, if you cannot
control your feelings. Orange allows you to balance your Spleen
Chakra in such situations.

Orange energy may help when:
*you want to increase appetite
*you need joy and well-being
*have stomach disorders
*nervousness
*skin problems
*asthma
*allergies
*vertical grooves in your nails
*lack working energy.

Green : Made up of the blue and yellow, green is regarded as a color
of harmony. It is a mild sedative. It is useful in the treatment of
nervous conditions, hay fever, ulcers, influenza, malaria , colds,
sexual disorders and cancer. It preserves and strengthens eyesight.
Being highly medicinal and depressive, it is of great help in the
treatment of inflammatory conditions. Green Energy is governed by the
Heart Chakra. Green is the harmonizing, balancing energy. It has
strong influences on the heart and blood supply. Green has much to do
with the way you feel about yourself. It is associated with abundance
and giving. It's strong tie to nature is very important in order to
be balanced, peaceful, harmonious. The Heart Chakra - allows balance
to the heart, lungs, bronchia, arms, hands, and secondary system.This
energy -- gives a feeling of renewal, new life, freshness, and
clarity. The heart is the center of the soul and it is the heart that
makes us one with our fellow man. Most importantly, it harbors love
energy, the leading principle of life. Being with loved ones, family,
and friends, strengthens the heart energy. In using green -- we must
accept and allow love in our hearts and learn to give it without
expecting anything in return. When our heart center is balanced,
we are able to give positive feelings and happiness, unconditionally.

Green Energy may help when:
*you need to soothe your nerves
*you have tension
headaches
*need peace and harmony
*have chronic problems
*digestive problems
*need to calm down.

Blue : Cool, soothing and sedative, blue alleviates pain, reducing
bleeding and heals burns. It is beneficial in the treatment of
dysentery, colic, asthma, respiratory disorders, high blood pressure
and skin aberrations. Blue Energy is governed by the throat chakra.
Blue represents the spiritual aspects of our life. The sky and the
ocean give us the feeling that life is an endless process. Blue is
the greatest healing power in the world. Blue is the color of purity
and those who enjoy it, carry with them a sense of calmness, peace,
serenity, and beauty. The Throat Chakra - is energized by
blue. Through the throat, we express ourselves, connecting with sound
and voice, carrying power with our words.This energy -- is peaceful
and soothing. Calming tired nerves, alleviating agony and pain we
suffer from physical stress. It has a pacifying effect over our
nervous system and brings us great relaxation. In using blue -- blue
connects us to a spiritual and higher ground. The nature of blue
energy is to connect our beings with the cosmic universe.

Blue Energy may help when:
*you need to calm your mind and nerves
*have throat problems
*cannot sleep
*have menstrual problems
*eye, ear, nose, throat problems
*have had a shock
*have a fever.

Indigo: Purple or indigo combines the blood-warming red and the
cooling antiseptic blue. It is an excellent stimulant without being
an irritant. It is beneficial in the treatment of advanced stages of
constipation, hydrocle, leukorrhea, many disorders of the stomach and
womb , cataract , migraine and skin disorders. It exerts a soothing
effect on the eyes, ears and the nervous system. Indigo Energy is
governed by the Brow Chakra, or appropriately called the "Third Eye."
Indigo energy is where our intuitive experiences come from. In
Indigo, lies the understanding of the life process, the need to serve
mankind, and gives energy to seekers of beauty, love and justice.The
Brow Chakra -- allows you to withdrawal into your innerself. It
allows you to withdraw to obtain peace, quiet, and freedom to stretch
boundaries. It is also the source for intuition, clairvoyance,
extrasensory perception. This energy -- gives power to the pituitary
gland, which is linked to the nervous system, mental abilities, and
psychic potential in all humans. The sense organs such as the eyes
and ears are also influenced by indigo.In using Indigo - it has a
psychological balancing influence on fear, frustration, and
distortions of inner energy.

Indigo Energy may help when:
*you need to find inner balance
*calm nerves and lymphatic systems
*have hearing problems
*have sleeping problems.

Violet : Violet is beneficial in the treatment of nervous and
emotional disturbances, arthritis, acute cases of consumption and
insomnia.Violet Energy is governed by the Crown Chakra. This is the
most exhaulting, most unobtainable of all the energy rays. An
extremely balanced and refined space of unconditional enlightenment
is found here. It is the highest frequency of vibrational speed and
cannot be utilized by most people.The Crown Chakra --
has the ability to obtain a connection with everything that is
divine, living or dead, spiritual helpers of human or non-human
origin. Controller of the pineal gland in the brain.This energy --
has the most intense electrochemical power. With this energy we have
the gift and the possibilities that reach far beyond the physical
plane. In using violet -- it enhances spiritual power and
creativity and is known as the color of the spirit.

Violet Energy may help when:
*you have emotional problems
*want to clear an existing situation
*strengthen your spiritual values
*strengthen your creativity.

from
Andrew Pacholyk LMT, MT-BC, CA
Peacefulmind.com
Alternative medicine and therapies
for healing mind, body & spirit!

in lak'ech

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photon band

2004-04-01T21:56:41Z

John W. Moore writing in aworldofpeace Yahoo! group 12/3/2003:

Earth re-enters the Photon Band Dec 2, 2003 remaining until July 9,
2004. Earth is now traveling through this band for more than six
months each year and is another indicator of the increased light
energy assisting us in these transformational times.

This link has an in depth article explaining the Photon Band and
some of its implications for where we are now:

http://www.spiritdove.com/tcs_newsapr10_03.htm

Noel Huntley, Ph.D. says: The photon belt is an immense region of
space which is radiating intense electromagnetic radiation
throughout the visible spectrum and beyond, into high-frequency
invisible light; even including some x-ray spectra. It is part of a
magnetic flow of light throughout the galaxy.It appears that for
mankind on this planet the photon belt encounter will be essentially
a spiritual experience--but this really depends on man.
Nevertheless, the real benefits of this phenomenon is from what is
actually causing the photons. It is linked with the so-called
convergences. If we are sufficiently evolved at the time, great
advancements will occur in our consciousness as we attune to the
higher-frequencies...

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/photonbelt.htm

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last doot in portugal

2004-04-01T07:13:41Z

this event was organized by pan portugal last year and i think that is a good example of what can be done
check this kinks:

flyer:
http://www.pan-portugal.com/1320_festival/1320_festival_UK.htm

report:
http://www.pan-portugal.com/1320_festival/report_UK.htm

some pics:
http://www.pan-portugal.com/photogallery/photos_smt_01.html

in lak'ech

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you are

2004-03-31T22:29:24Z

Dear Friends,

Yes you ARE - each and every one of you. Don't Ever doubt yourself.

There is only One of Us and we are ALL ONE.

Love and Light.

Each of you is of the Light and from the Light and as the Light.

There is nothing to fear. Greetings. On this occasion we come to
you of the Light, from the Light, and within the Light. With peace and
unconditional love for each of you in this moment and always. There
is much need for each of you to understand that which we have said to
you before – that being that each of you is of the Light and from the
Light and as the Light. There is nothing to fear. There is nothing to
fear.

Nothing that can happen can change who you are in reality
As the changes come about with your realm and you look about you and you feel unsafe, you must remember there is nothing that can happen –
nothing that can happen – that can change who you are in reality. It may change this reality, but not that which is Truth and Light. You must understand this in your heart, not in your head.

It is necessary for you to make your own shift
Each of you is getting very large lessons in operating from within your
heart space. To many of you, it is more of a quest. If you find that
this is so, then you are not operating from this heart space, but one
of your mental or emotional spaces. It is necessary for you to make
your own shift, your own shift within your self. Rekindle that Light
which exists within you – each and every one of you – from within your
heart space. That is where your true self lies. That is where your
connection lies to all things, to all of your inherent memories, to all that
you are.

It is this Light within you that is the true sense of All That Is
And as you make this connection, you will begin to understand and you
will begin to feel that you are at peace. You are at peace from within.
As this occurs, it is this that ignites the Light that we have spoken
of and many others have come and spoken to you about. It is this Light, this Light that is the true sense of All That Is that which is the One
Spirit of the One God that is each of you and everything. It is
resident within you, and it is the most powerful tool that you could possibly have.

Give yourself the gift of recognition of this space within your self
We ask that you give yourself the gift of recognition of this space
within your self. It is vitally important that you make this connection
and hold it dear and true. And as you do, each and every other being
that you come upon will go away with a little bit of that which you have
found. And it will begin to grow in them as a seed, as something in
them will recognize what they have encountered with each of you.

That which you seek is within you
Speaking of the Light is not simply a flowery description that is
romantic that you must accomplish. It speaks of the Truth. It speaks of the purest and highest form of vibrational energy that there is. It speaks of that which you seek. And yet you seek that which you are in every way, in all ways. Do you not see that that which you seek is within
you? Must you look externally for your answers when you carry them?
There are no answers outside of you that are not already resident within
you. Many have packed those so tightly with the emotions of experience that they can no longer see the answers. They are there. They are
there.

Breathe into your heart space
We ask that when you practice the art of breathing, as we note many of
you do, that you bring that breath into your heart space. Feed it.
Cleanse it. Allow it to be and to be free to grow. And as this occurs,
and as you are in the moment with each breath – for you must be in the
moment to experience that breath, you will begin to understand the word “synchronicity” in its purest form. That which you wish manifests
immediately if not sooner.

You must let go of the idea that each of you is separate
You must let go of the idea that each of you is separate. Each of you
has a thinking mind that is separate from all other things. Each of
you has a set of emotions that is also separate from all other things.
Each of you has a resonance within the harmony of all things that is
yours and yours alone. Yet, each of you is a part of the One. We
understand that this is difficult for many of you to comprehend. However, it is so! It is so!

When you become discouraged or judgmental, you have allowed yourself to become separate And when you become discouraged, and when you become judgmental, and when you become anything but in the moment and within your heart, you have allowed yourself to become separate from all other things and are operating from within a space that is not within your true heart. To operate from within your true heart requires complete trust. Trust in Spirit, you say? When you trust in Spirit, you have trusted in yourself it is all the same. It is all the same.

Exercise to ignite and spread the Light within
We ask that each of you close your eyes in this moment. Breathe
deeply. Allow this breath to flow through your entire body. And as it does, imagine that it is going through that which is your sacred heart. It
is a bit above and to the right of your physical heart. Breathe into
this space and, with your eyes closed, if you can imagine as you breathe there is a small ember that catches flame – that which is your true self.

And with each breath, the flame grows and it becomes brighter and
brighter until it becomes pure Light. And with every breath that you
exhale, imagine that you have cleansed all that you are in order that your flame will continue to burn brightly as you see it now. And as your
flame begins to get brighter and larger, it fills you. And with this
filling becomes warmth, a gentleness, within your own spirit that is at
peace. For peace is gentleness. And peace is being in this space, such as it is in the moment.

And as this breath, this light, has filled your body, it begins to glow
beyond that which is your physical self – faintly at first around each
of you. And as you breathe, it becomes larger until it begins to touch
each other in the room. One of you touches another and then another
and then another until it becomes one light. And within this one light
is all knowing, all being, peace, that which is your one heart in
sacredness.

And as this light occurs around you, we join you to magnify this light
until it reaches outwardly, upward, touching all things, being all
things. A force of One. And this, Dear Ones, is who you truly are in any
given moment when you are coming from your heart space. Be the One. It is as simple as that. When you have put aside your emotionality and your rationality – and your irrationality – it simply is. As it was in the Beginning, and as it always shall be.

And know that when you come in contact with other beings and you are
operating within this space, that you are reaching from your heart and
touching them in theirs. When you have dropped all aspects of the “me”, if the judgment, of the expectations, of the individualized state of
mind, this heart space is perfection in each and every other that you
will meet. This is where we ask that you touch all others.

This is how you will spread the Light
You wish to know how it is that you will spread the Light, how it is
that you will shift the consciousness. We have given you step-by-step
instructions. This is how you change the world! This is how you affect,
as that which you have projected becomes eternal in the Light and comes back to you a thousand-fold.

Feel the rhythm of the Universe as it has ignited within you
Feel the rhythm of the Universe as it has ignited within you. Feel the
rhythm of that which is you, that which is the God that you seek. It is
you. You are one and the same. This is key – this is key – to your
awakening. This is where you operate from and from within. For, you
see, within the Light that you generate is contained all information that
ever was, that always is, within this Light. So, you see, you
communicate from one to the next.

You light the torch. You set the fire. And you watch it spread until
it is one with all things. It is at that moment that all things will
change – as you know, as is written. We are telling you. You have
asked us. Nothing within this realm or any other needs to be complicated. When you operate from within the Truth, it is quite simple. It is to be that who you are in every moment, giving, learning, teaching, and burning within so that you shine throughout.

Peace will reign
And so it is that Peace will reign. And so it is that the Light will
conquer all things. Each of you will begin to wake up and remember this simple exercise, this simple step, and ride the wave, feel the rhythm,
be.

You must know that you already know all it is that you need
You must know that you already know all it is that you need. How is
this so? It is so from within this heart of yours. Many of you listen
to us, yet do not hear our words but understand that which we have said. It is in such a way that all things are held within the Light in the
subtle ways, those ways that are perfect – pulsing, moving, growing, and communicating in every given moment.

It is the choreography of the infinite – that which you are a part of,
that which you contribute to with every breath, with every thought,
action, movement. And with every emotion that you make, you have given rise to that which will travel amongst the Light, communicating with all other things. And that which you believe and that which you expend – as you reap, this is what you will sow. Know this to be true. Know
that this is why.

As you reach out your hand towards another, reach with your hearAs you reach out your hand towards another, reach with your heart. Imagine, if you must, that your heart is in your hand. And so it is from the Book of Light it is given.

We bring you blessings and adulations, spontaneity of being, purity in
the Light.

It is finished.

Namaste

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only love prevails

2004-03-31T15:37:03Z

Hi everyone, thought I would share the following for any who would be
interested:

Become a Catalyst for Peace
Join the World Peace Experiment

We are seeking 80,000 people who are willing to be part of a 100th
monkey experiment to see if we can shift the world's perception
of "good and evil" to a perception of love. It won't cost you any
money and will take only seconds a day. We believe we are all one
mind and that if enough people (critical mass) could shift their own
personal perception--change their minds--about the existence of evil,
then the whole planet could shift into a perception of love.

We also believe that world peace begins with each individual
achieving a state of peace within themselves. We can begin to do that
for ourselves by becoming aware of the "negative" influences in our
lives and choosing consciously to eliminate or shift those influences.

What we propose is a two step process as follows:

STEP 1: Whenever you perceive that a negative event is occurring say
the words "ONLY LOVE PREVAILS." This phrase sends "positive" energy
to the perceived negative event as you stand as an observer in non-
judgment. It will also help shift the perception that for good to
exist, evil must also exist (polarity theory). As your perception
shifts, you will perceive less and less negativity. This process
therefore acts as a barometer to measure your own sense of inner
peace. The less negativity you perceive, the less you will find
yourself needing to affirm "Only Love Prevails".

STEP 2: Become aware that the news media has a profound impact on
your perception. Do whatever you need to do to protect yourself from
exposure to "negative" or fear based stories in the media. This might
mean giving up watching or listening to newscasts or reading
newspapers, or it might mean that you filter your exposure to the
news media and become very selective about what you do read or watch
or listen to. Just bringing your awareness to the negativity that
permeates the news media will help shift your consciousness.

The media feeds us with negative reports of world events and
therefore we personally get pulled into the negative energy. Very
seldom does the media report "positive news" events. If we only had
the media as our benchmark of what was happening on our planet, it
would be easy to believe that only evil exists. The truth is, the
reports of so-called negative occurrences that permeate newscasts are
in most cases isolated incidences. Most of what happens on this
planet falls into the "good" news area, but positive news is rarely
reported because it doesn't sell newspapers. We have become
conditioned to want to hear about the horror stories that the media
has become so good at reporting. Many of us have become addicted to
it.

We feel that if enough people (critical mass) stopped exposing
themselves to the "negative energy" generated by the news media and
repeated "ONLY LOVE PREVAILS" whenever exposed to a report of an
incident that appeared to be negative that we could shift the
consciousness of the planet to a perception that ONLY LOVE PREVAILS.
This would be a giant step toward achieving a state of peace.

In order for us to know when we reach our goal of 80,000, we are
keeping track of number of people who are participating as well as
the demographics (how many in each country).

If you would like to participate in this experiment, we would love to
hear from you. You can contact us in one of four ways:

(1) Fill out our online form at http://www.openheart.com/peace.
(2) Send us an e-mail (wpe@openheart.com).
Include your name, city, state (if applicable) & country
(3) Send us a postcard with your name, city, state, and country to
World Peace Experiment, PO Box 6722, Concord, CA 94524
(4) Call our voice mail at 925-974-9088 and leave your
name, city, state and country

We invite you to share this idea with your friends and acquaintances -
- with anyone and everyone. You can make a difference! You can be a
catalyst for world peace!!

This experiment began in December 1997. As of August 2002 we have had
over 10,000 people from 81 countries around the world participating
with every state in the United States represented. We encourage you
to join in this world changing experiment and to tell your friends.
Together we will create a world of peace where... ONLY LOVE PREVAILS.

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O Universo como um Holograma

2004-03-17T13:58:49Z

O Universo como um Holograma

Existe uma Realidade Objetiva ou o Universo é um Fantasma?
Em 1982 ocorreu um fato muito importante. Na Universidade de Paris uma equipe de pesquisa liderada pelo físico Alain Aspect realizou o que pode se tornar o mais importante experimento do século 20. Você não ouviu falar sobre isto nas notícias da noite. De fato, a menos que você tenha o hábito de ler jornais e revistas científicos, você provavelmente nunca ouviu falar no nome de Aspect.

E há muitos que pensam que o que ele descobriu pode mudar a face da ciência.

Aspect e sua equipe descobriram que sob certas circunstâncias partículas subatômicas como os elétrons são capazes de instantaneamente se comunicar umas com as outras a despeito da distância que as separe. Não importa se esta distância é de 10 pés ou de 10 bilhões de milhas. De alguma forma uma partícula sempre sabe o que a outra está fazendo. O problema com esta descoberta é que isto viola a por muito tempo sustentada afirmação de Einstein que nenhuma comunicação pode viajar mais rápido do que a velocidade da luz. E como viajar mais rápido que a velocidade da luz é o objetivo máximo para quebrar a barreira do tempo, este fato estonteante tem feito com que muitos físicos tentem vir com maneiras elaboradas para descartar os achados de Aspect.

Mas também tem proporcionado que outros busquem explicações mais radicais.

O físico da Universidade de Londres, David Bohm, por exemplo, acredita que as descobertas de Aspect implicam em que a realidade objetiva não existe, que a despeito da aparente solidez o universo está no coração de um holograma fantástico, gigantesco e extremamente detalhado. Para entender porque Bohm faz esta afirmativa surpreendente, temos primeiro que saber um pouco sobre hologramas. Um holograma é uma fotografia tridimensional feita com a ajuda de um laser.

Para fazer um holograma, o objeto a ser fotografado é primeiro banhado com a luz de um raio laser. Então um segundo raio laser é colocado fora da luz refletida do primeiro e o padrão resultante de interferência (a área aonde se combinam estes dois raios laser) é capturada no filme. Quando o filme é revelado, parece um rodamoinho de luzes e linhas escuras. Mas logo que este filme é iluminado por um terceiro raio laser, aparece a imagem tridimensional do objeto original.

A tridimensionalidade destas imagens não é a única característica importante dos hologramas. Se o holograma de uma rosa é cortado na metade e então iluminado por um laser, em cada metade ainda será encontrada uma imagem da rosa inteira. E mesmo que seja novamente dividida cada parte do filme sempre apresentará uma menor, mas ainda intacta versão da imagem original. Diferente das fotografias normais, cada parte de um holograma contém toda a informação possuída pelo todo.

A natureza de "todo em cada parte " de um holograma nos proporciona uma maneira inteiramente nova de entender organização e ordem. Durante a maior parte de sua história, a ciência ocidental tem trabalhado dentro de um conceito que a melhor maneira para entender um fenômeno físico, seja ele um sapo ou um átomo, é dissecá-lo e estudar suas partes respectivas. Um holograma nos ensina que muitas coisas no universo não podem ser conduzidas por esta abordagem. Se tentamos tomar alguma coisa à parte, alguma coisa construída holograficamente, não obteremos as peças da qual esta coisa é feita, obteremos apenas inteiros menores.

Este "insight" é o sugerido por Bohm como outra forma de compreender os aspectos da descoberta de Aspect. Bohm acredita que a razão que habilita as subpartículas a permanecerem em contacto umas com as outras a despeito da distância que as separa não é porque elas estejam enviando algum tipo de sinal misterioso, mas porque esta separação é uma ilusão. Ele argúe que em um nível mais profundo de realidade estas partículas não são entidades individuais, mas são extensões da mesma coisa fundamental.

Para capacitar as pessoas a melhor visualizarem o que ele quer dizer, Bohm oferece a seguinte ilustração: Imagine um aquário que contém um peixe. Imagine também que você não é capaz de ver este aquário diretamente e seu conhecimento deste aquário se dá por meio de duas câmaras de televisão, uma dirigida ao lado da frente e outra a parte lateral.

Quando você fica observando atentamente os dois monitores, você acaba presumindo que o peixe de cada uma das telas é uma entidade individual. Isto porque como as câmeras foram colocadas em ângulos diferentes, cada uma das imagens será também ligeiramente diferente. Mas se você continua a olhar para os dois peixes, você acaba adquirindo a consciência de que há uma relação entre eles.

Quando um se vira, o outro faz uma volta correspondente apenas ligeiramente diferente; quando um se coloca de frente para a frente, o outro se coloca de frente para o lado. Se você não sabe das angulações das câmeras você pode ser levado a concluir que os peixes estão se intercomunicando, apesar de claramente este não ser o caso.

Isto, diz Bohm, é precisamente o que acontece com as partículas subatômicas na experiência de Aspect. Segundo Bohm, a aparente ligação mais-rápido-do-que-a-luz entre as partículas subatômicas está nos dizendo realmente que existe um nível de realidade mais profundo da qual não estamos privados, uma dimensão mais complexa além da nossa própria que é análoga ao aquário. E ele acrescenta, vemos objetos como estas partículas subatômicas como se estivessem separadas umas das outras porque estamos vendo apenas uma porção da realidade delas.

Estas partículas não são partes separadas mas sim facetas de uma unidade mais profunda e mais subliminar que é holográfica e indivisível como a rosa previamente mencionada. E como tudo na realidade física está compreendido dentro destes "eidolons", o próprio universo é uma projeção, um holograma.

Em adição a esta natureza fantástica, este universo possuiria outras características surpreendentes. Se a aparente separação das partículas subatômicas é uma ilusão, isto significa que em nível mais profundo de realidade todas as coisas do universo estão infinitamente interconectadas.

Os elétrons num átomo de carbono no cérebro humano estão interconectados com as partículas subatômicas que compreendem cada salmão que nada, cada coração que bate, e cada estrela que brilha no céu.

Tudo interprenetra tudo e embora a natureza humana possa buscar categorizar como um pombal e subdividir os vários fenômenos do universo, todos os aportes toda esta necessidade é de fato artificial e todas de natureza que é finalmente uma rede sem sentido.

Em um universo holográfico, mesmo o tempo e o espaço não podem mais serem vistos como fundamentais. Porque conceitos como localização se quebram diante de um universo em que nada está verdadeiramente separado de nada, tempo e espaço tridimensional, como as imagens dos peixes nos monitores, também podem ser vistos como projeções de ordem mais profunda.

Este tipo de realidade a nível mais profundo é um tipo de super holograma no qual o passado, o presente, o futuro existem simultaneamente. Sugere que tendo as ferramentas apropriadas pode ser algum dia possível entrar dentro deste nível de realidade super holográfica e trazer cenas do passado há muito esquecido. Seja o que for que o super holograma contenha, é ainda uma questão em aberto. Pode-se até admitir, por amor a argumentação, que o super holograma é a matriz que deu nascimento a tudo em nosso universo e no mínimo contém cada partícula subatômica que existe ou existirá - cada configuração da matéria e energia que é possível, de flocos de neve a quasars, de baleias azuis aos raios gamma. Deve ser visto como um tipo de "depósito" de "Tudo que é".

Embora Bohm admita que não há maneira de saber o que mais pode estar oculto no super holograma, ele se arrisca em dizer que não temos qualquer razão para admitir que ele não contenha mais. Ou, como ele coloca, talvez o nível super holográfico da realidade é um simples estágio além do que repousa "uma infinidade de desenvolvimento posterior".

Bohm não é o único pesquisador que encontrou evidências de que o universo é um holograma. Trabalhando independentemente no campo da pesquisa cerebral, o neurofisiologista Karl Pribram, de Standford também se persuadiu da natureza holográfica da realidade. Pribram desenhou o modelo holográfico para o quebra-cabeças de como e onde as memórias são guardadas no cérebro.

Por décadas, inúmeros estudos tem mostrado que muito mais que confinadas a uma localização específica, as memórias estão dispersas pelo cérebro.

Em uma série de experiências com marcadores na década de 20, o cientista cerebral Karl Lashley concluiu que não importava que porção do cérebro do rato era removida; ele era incapaz de erradicar a memória de como eram realizadas as atividades complexas que tinham sido aprendidas antes da cirurgia. O único problema foi que ninguém foi capaz de poder explicar a natureza de "inteiro em cada parte" da estocagem da memória.

Então, na década de 60, Pribram encontrou o conceito de holografia e entendeu que ele tinha achado a explicação que os cientistas cerebrais estavam buscando. Pribram acredita que as memórias são codificadas não nos neurônios, ou pequenos grupos de neurônios, mas em padrões de impulsos nervosos de tipo cruzado em todo o cérebro da mesma forma que a interferência da luz laser atravessa toda a área de um pedaço de filme contendo uma imagem holográfica. Em outras palavras, Pribram acredita que o próprio cérebro é um holograma.

A teoria de Pribram também explica como o cérebro humano pode guardar tantas memórias em um espaço tão pequeno.

Tem sido calculado que o cérebro humano tem a capacidade de memorizar algo na ordem de 10 bilhões de bits de informação durante a média da vida humana ( ou rudemente comparando, a mesma quantidade de informação contida em cinco volumes da Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Similarmente, foi descoberto que em adição a suas outras capacidades, o holograma possui uma capacidade de estocagem de informação simplesmente mudando o ângulo no qual os dois lasers atingem um pedaço de filme fotográfico, e é possível gravar muitos registros diferentes na mesma superfície. Tem sido demonstrado que um centímetro cúbico pode estocar mais que 10 bilhões de bits de informação.

Nossa habilidade de rapidamente recuperar qualquer informação que precisamos do enorme estoque de nossas memórias se torna mais compreensível se o cérebro funciona segundo princípios holográficos. Se um amigo pede a você que diga o que lhe vem a mente quando ele diz a palavra "zebra", você não tem que percorrer uma gigantesca lista alfabética para encontrar a resposta. Ao contrário, associações como "listrada", parecida com um cavalo e "animal nativo da África" logo lhe vem à mente.

Uma das coisas mais surpreendentes sobre o processo de pensamento humano é que cada peça de informação parece imediatamente correlacionada com muitas outras - uma outra característica intrínseca do holograma. Por que cada porção de um holograma é infinitamente interligada com todas as outras porções, talvez seja a natureza o supremo exemplo de um sistema interligado.

A estocagem da memória não é o único quebra-cabeças neurofisiológico que se torna abordável à luz do modelo holográfico de cérebro de Pribram.

Um outro é como o cérebro é capaz de traduzir a avalanche de freqüências que recebe via sentidos (freqüências de sons, freqüências de luz e assim por diante ) dentro do mundo concreto de nossas percepções. Codificando e decodificando freqüências é precisamente o que o holograma faz melhor.

Exatamente como um holograma funciona como um tipo de lente, um aparelho tradutor capaz de converter um borrão de freqüências aparentemente sem sentido em uma imagem coerente, Pribram acredita que o cérebro também parece uma lente e usa os princípios holográficos para converter matematicamente as freqüências que recebe através dos sentidos dentro do mundo interior de nossas percepções. Um impressionante corpo de evidência sugere que o cérebro usa os princípios holográficos para realizar as suas operações. A teoria de Pribram de fato tem ganho suporte crescente entre os neurofisiologistas.

O pesquisador ítalo-argentino Hugo Zucarelli recentemente estendeu o modelo holográfico ao mundo dos fenômenos acústicos. Confuso pelo fato de que os humanos podem localizar a fonte dos sons sem moverem as cabeças, mesmo se eles só possuem audição em um ouvido, Zucarelli descobriu que os princípios holográficos podem explicar estas habilidades.

Zucarelli também desenvolveu uma técnica de som holográfico, uma técnica de gravação capaz de reproduzir sons acústicos com um realismo quase inconcebível.

A crença de Pribram que nossos cérebros constroem matematicamente a "dura" realidade pela liberação de um input de uma freqüência dominante também tem recebido grande quantidade de suporte experimental. Foi descoberto que cada um de nossos sentidos é sensível a uma extensão muito mais ampla de freqüências do que se suspeitava anteriormente.

Os pesquisadores tem descoberto, por exemplo, que nosso sistema visual é sensível às freqüências de som, nosso sentido de olfato é em parte dependente do que agora chamamos de freqüências ósmicas e que mesmo cada célula de nosso corpo é sensível a uma ampla extensão de freqüências. Estas descobertas sugerem que está apenas sob o domínio holográfico da consciência e que estas freqüências são selecionadas e divididas dentro das percepções convencionais.

Mas o mais envolvente aspecto do modelo holográfico cerebral de Pribram é o que acontece quando ele é conjugado à teoria de Bohm. Se a "concretividade" do mundo nada mais é do que uma realidade secundária e o que está "lá" é um borrão de freqüências holográfico, e se o cérebro é também um holograma e apenas seleciona algumas das freqüências deste borrão e matematicamente transforma-as em percepções sensoriais, o que vem a ser a realidade objetiva? Colocando de forma simples, ela deixa de existir.

Como as religiões orientais há muito tem afirmado, o mundo material é Maya, uma ilusão, e embora pensemos que somos seres físicos que se movem em um mundo físico, isto também é uma ilusão. Somos realmente "receptores" boiando num mar caleidoscópico de freqüência, e que extraímos deste mar e transformamos em realidade física não é mais que um canal entre muitos do super holograma.

Esta intrigante figura da realidade, a síntese das abordagens de Bohm e Pribram tem sido chamada de "paradigma holográfico", e embora muitos cientistas tenham recebido isto com ceticismo, este paradigma tem galvanizado outros. Um pequeno mas crescente grupo de pesquisadores acredita que este pode ser o modelo mais acurado da realidade científica que foi mais longe. Mais do que isto, muitos acreditam que ele pode solucionar muitos mistérios que nunca foram antes explicados pela ciência e mesmo estabelecer o paranormal como parte da natureza.

Numerosos pesquisadores como Bohm e Pribram tem notado que muitos fenômenos parapsicológicos se tornam muito mais compreensíveis em termos do paradigma holográfico.

Em um universo em que cérebros individuais são atualmente porções indivisíveis de um holograma muito maior e tudo está infinitamente interligado, a telepatia pode ser simplesmente o acessamento do nível holográfico. E é obviamente muito mais fácil entender como a informação pode viajar da mente do indivíduo A para a do indivíduo B ao ponto mais distante e auxilia a entender um grande número de quebra-cabeças em psicologia.

Em particular, Grof sente que o paradigma holográfico oferece um modelo de compreensão para muitos estonteantes fenômenos vivenciados por indivíduos durante estados alterados de consciência. Nos anos 50, conduzindo uma pesquisa em que se acreditava que o LSD seria um instrumento psicoterapêutico, Grof teve uma paciente que de repente ficou convencida que tinha assumido a identidade de uma femea de uma espécie pré-histórica de répteis.

Durante o curso da alucinação dela, ela não somente deu riquissimos detalhes do que ela sentia ao ser encapsulada naquela forma, mas notou que uma porção do macho daquela espécie tinha anatomia que era um caminho para as escamas coloridas ao lado de sua cabeça. O que foi surpreendente para Grof é que a mulher não tinha conhecimento prévio sobre estas coisas, e uma conversação posterior com um zoologista confirmou que em certas espécies de repteis as áreas coloridas na cabeça tem um importante papel como estimulantes do desenvolvimento sexual.

A experiência desta mulher não foi única. Durante o curso da pesquisa, Grof encontrou exemplos de pacientes regredindo e se identificando com virtualmente todas as espécies na árvore evolucionária (descobertas da pesquisa ajudaram a influenciar a cena do homem-vindo-do-macaco no filme Altered States). E mais ainda, ele descobriu que estas experiências freqüentemente continham detalhes obscuros que mais tarde vieram a ser confirmados como acurados.

Regressões dentro do reino animal não são os únicos quebra cabeças entre os fenômenos psicológicos que Grof encontrou.

Ele também teve pacientes que pareciam entrar em algum tipo de consciência racial ou coletiva. Indivíduos com pouca ou nenhuma educação repentinamente davam detalhadas descrições das práticas funerárias do Zoroastrismo e cenas da mitologia hindu. Em outro tipo de experiências os indivíduos forneciam relatos persuasivos de jornadas fora do corpo, relâmpagos pré cognitivos do futuro, de regressões dentro de aparentemente encarnações de vidas passadas.

Em pesquisa posterior, Grof encontrou a mesma extensão de fenômenos manifestados em seções de terapia que não envolviam o uso de drogas. Em virtude dos elementos em comum nestas experiências parecerem transcender a consciência individual, além dos usuais limites do ego e/ou as limitações de tempo ou espaço, Grof chamou estas manifestações de experiências transpessoais e no fim dos anos 60 ele auxilou na fundação de um ramo de psicologia chamada "psicologia transpessoal" e se devotou inteiramente ao seu estudo.

Embora a recém-fundada Association of Transpersonal Psychology conquistasse um rápido crescimento entre o grupo de profissionais de mente similar, e se tornasse um ramo respeitado da psicologia, durante anos nem Grof nem seus colegas foram capazes de fornecer um mecanismo para explicar os bizarros fenômenos psicológicos que eles estavam testemunhando. Mas isto mudou com o advento do paradigma holográfico. Como Grof recentemente notou, se a mente é parte de um continuum, um labirinto que é conectado não somente as outras mentes que existem ou existiram, mas a cada átomo, cada organismo e região na vastidão do espaço e tempo, o fato de que seja capaz de ocasionalmente fazer entradas no labirinto e Ter experiências transpessoais não pode mais parecer estranho.

O paradigma holográfico tem também implicações nas chamadas ciências "concretas" como a biologia. Keith Floyd, um psicólogo do Virginia Intermont College, tem pontificado que a concretividade da realidade é apenas uma ilusão holográfica, e não está muito longe da verdade dizer que o cérebro produz a consciência. Mais ainda, é a consciência que cria a aparência do cérebro - bem como do corpo e de tudo mais que nós interpretamos como físico.

Esta virada na maneira de se ver as estruturas biológicas fez com que pesquisadores apontassem que a medicina e o nosso entendimento do processo de cura poderia também ser transformado em um paradigma holográfico. Se a aparente estrutura física do corpo nada mais é do que a projeção holográfica da consciência, torna-se claro que cada um de nós é mais responsável por sua saúde do que admite a atual sabedoria médica. Que nós agora vejamos as remissões miraculosas de doenças podem ser próprias de mudanças na consciência que por sua vez efetua alterações no holograma do corpo.

Similarmente, novas técnicas controversas de cura como a visualização podem funcionar muito bem porque no domínio holográfico de imagens pensadas que são muito "reais" se tornam "realidade". Mesmo visões e experiências que envolvem realidades "não ordinárias" se tornam explicáveis sob o paradigma holográfico. Em seu livro, "Gifts of Unknown Things," o biologista Lyall Watson descreve seu encontro com uma mulher xamã indonésia que, realizando uma dança ritual , foi capaz de fazer um ramo inteiro de uma árvore desaparecer no ar. Watson relata que ele e outro atônito expectador continuaram a olhar para a mulher, e ela fez o ramo reaparecer, desaparecer novamente e assim por várias vezes.

Embora o atual entendimento científico seja incapaz de explicar estes eventos, experiências como esta vem a ser mais plausíveis se a "dura" realidade é apenas uma projeção holográfica. Talvez concordemos sobre o que está "lá" ou "não está lá " porque o que chamamos consenso realidade é formulada e ratificada a nível de inconsciência humana a qual todas as mentes estão interligadas.

Se isto é verdade, a mais profunda implicação do paradigma holográfico é que as experiências do tipo da de Watson não são lugares comum somente porque nós não temos programado nossas mentes com as crenças que fazem com que sejam.

Num universo holográfico não há limites para a extensão do quanto podemos alterar o tecido da realidade. O que percebemos como realidade é apenas uma forma esperando que desenhemos sobre ela qualquer imagem que queiramos.

Tudo é possível, de colheres entortadas com o poder da mente aos eventos fantasmagóricos vivenciados por Castaneda durante seus encontros com o bruxo Yaqui Don Juan, mágico de nascença, não mais nem menos miraculoso que a nossa habilidade para computar a realidade que nós queremos quando sonhamos.

E assim, mesmo as nossas noções fundamentais sobre a realidade se tornam suspeitas, dentro de um universo holográfico, como Pribram postulou, e mesmo eventos ao acaso podem ser vistos dentro dos princípios básicos holográficos e portanto determinados.

Sincronicidades ou coincidências significativas de repente fazem sentido, e tudo na realidade terá que ser visto como uma metáfora, e mesmo eventos ao acaso expressariam alguma simetria subjacente.

Seja o paradigma holográfico de Bohm e Pribram aceito na ciência ou morra de morte ignóbil, é seguro dizer que ele já tem influenciado a mente de muitos cientistas. E mesmo se descoberto que o modelo holográfico não oferece a melhor explicação para as comunicações instantâneas que vimos ocorrer entre as partículas subatômicas, no mínimo, como observou notou Basil Hiley, um físico do Birbeck College de Londres, os achados de Aspect "indicam que devemos estar preparados para considerar radicalmente novos pontos de vista da realidade".

Tradução do original:
Reality - the Holographic Universe - 03/16/97.
Arquivo postado como REALITY.ASC na lista KeelyNet BBS em 24 de fevereiro de 1991.

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2004-03-16T04:49:03Z

MAGNETIC POLE REVERSAL IS ON THE WAY

Persistent rumors about the magnetic poles reversing are true, and the
conditions of this magnetic reversal have been moving into place for 300
years. Complete reversal of the poles has taken as long as 3,000 years in
past periods. NOVA, science producers for the Public Broadcasting System
(PBS), offers a stunning video documentary of the magnetic reversal this
planet is undergoing. The data that led United States Geological Survey
(USGS) and NASA to this conclusion are well documented. The question is
not a matter of whether or not the magnetic poles will reverse in the near
future, but only when the poles will reverse and what the effects on life
on Earth will be.

Weakening of the magnetic fields that always precedes a pole shift reduces
the planet's protection from cosmic radiation, particularly the solar wind,
to allow more high-frequency radiation and heat on the surface. One health
effect scientists predict the weakening magnetic fields will have on humans
is increased skin cancer. The trend of higher levels of skin cancer has
been noted for a decade since the pace of magnetic north's movement
increased dramatically. In the same period, solar eruptions have set new
records, and the largest solar flares ever recorded have erupted in 2001
and 2003. The NOVA documentary did not correlate the increasing number of
brain disorders or rapid genetic mutations also noted in the 14 years since
1990, but it doesn't take rocket science to notice that brain disorders and
genetic mutations have paralleled growing levels of skin cancer, rapidly
increasing movement of magnetic north, and record-setting solar eruptions.
It only takes giving a little bit of attention to the planetary and solar
environment to notice that these changes all correlate with the same time
period.

The historical record of magnetic pole reversals is detected in
microscopic-sized iron bits (magnetites) found in pottery and lava flow.
(Note that the human brain is also permeated with magnetites.) When
pottery is fired or lava flow cools, magnetites align to the magnetic pole;
and by examining the direction of magnetites in pottery and lava the
positions of the primary magnetic pole is detected. Lava flows at Stein
Mountains in Oregon indicate that the entire reversal spanned 3,000 years
and that magnetic north fluctuated as much as 60 degrees in a single day
during that reversal, which occurred 16,000,000 years ago. Clearly, the
magnetic poles have been reversing for a long time and have produced
dramatic fluctuation in magnetic north in prior periods, not unlike what we
are seeing with movement in magnetic north since 1994.

Reversals of the magnetic poles occur on an average of every 200,000 years,
but the last reversal that put magnetic north in its present orientation
occurred 780,000 years ago. This means we are overdue for a magnetic
reversal of the poles. In process of this reversal, the magnetic fields of
the planet have been declining for about 300 years, or, since 1704 give or
take a few decades. The current 260-period that ends in 2012 began in 1752
and coincides with Benjamin Franklin's first efforts to model the American
democracy in 1754.

EARTH: The direction of the magnetic field has already started to reverse
in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic. This area is designated with the
Earth glyph on the TimeStar, and is the area the TimeStar identifies as
characterizing the fate of the planet. (See
http://www.timestar.org/earth.htm) The TimeStar glyph Night in the North
Atlantic is aligned with the location of magnetic north 12,000 years ago,
which now is in process of rapid movement and is predicted to move to
Siberia within a few years.

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EULAT

2004-03-12T07:29:01Z

EULAT, EU Light Activation Trance Tour!!!
Goes in 15 countries of the EU!!!
A Rainbow Circus with full education Mayan Calendar and Cristal Grids! A caravan of buses and trucks crossing the EU!!!
More info soon!!!
in lak´ech,

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